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With only a week left to go in its annual fund drive, the Rappahannock Unit of the American Cancer Society is just a third of the way to the county’s goal of $1,800.
According to door-to-door Crusade volunteers, individuals are making smaller donations this year. Inflation has left us all poorer but we hope that folks will dig a little deeper during the last days of the campaign.
The money we give funds vital research that brings a cure for cancer closer and closer. Tremendous gains have been made, carrying scientists to the threshhold of a final victory. The doctor who discovered the treatment that has conquered thousands of cases of Hodgkin’s disease was supported in part by Society funds.
Society funds have brought advances in treatment of children’s cancer to where the story is no longer about facing death; it is about struggling for life. Twenty years ago, almost every child with acute lymphocytic leukemia died within a few months; today, about half the children stricken are able to hold a remission for five years, and of those who reach the five-year mark, about 80 percent are expected to live a normal lifespan. The chances of longterm survival depend on each child and the speediness of diagnosis, but in general, the rates range from about 80 percent survival for Hodgkin’s disease and Wilms’ tumor to 60 percent for
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