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Beginning next week, volunteers for the Rappahannock Unit of the American Cancer Society will be going door-to-door, collecting for the county’s fair share goal of this year’s Cancer Crusade.
Before we decide whether to dig down into our inflation riddled pockets for a donation, maybe we should listen to the answer given by Dr. Arthur Holleb when the Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs in the Cancer Society’s national office was asked “Are we making any progress in the fight against cancer? ”
“There’s been great progress against cancer in only one medical lifetime. Let me count some of our blessings as 1981 begins:
“The death rate from cancer of the cervix has been reduced by 60 percent.
“Mammography can find breast cancer too small to be discovered by the most experienced examiner and in-situ (non-invasivel breast cancer has a cure rate approaching 100 percent. Forty years ago the average breast cancer, when first seen, approached the size of a golf ball.
“Choriocarcinoma—a malignant tumor in the womb occurring after pregnancy—was uniformly fatal and now is virtually 100 percent curable by chemotherapy even when the disease is widespread.
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