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Although cancer holds the number two spot in Rappahannock County among the major causes of death, the chance of surviving a battle with the disease is better now than it ever was.
Today, one out of three victims is being cured, according to cancer specialists. And that ratio could be raised to one out of two, they say, if everyone saw a physician where the first symptoms appeared.
Interest in their findings, revealed at the National Cancer Conference in Denver, is heightened by the fact that next month has been designated “Cancer Control Month.”
The cancer figures for the local area, and the way they compare with those for other sections of the country, are brought out in the latest annual report of the U. S. Public Health Service.
They show, among residents of Rappahannock County, a total of 7 deaths in the year from the various types of cancer. Not included are cases in the local area involving non-residents.
It was equivalent to a rate of 143 cancer deaths per 100,000 population, as against 154 per 100,000 in the United States as a
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