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“Acute lymphocytic leukemia of childhood, once uniformly fatal, now shows at least a 50 percent five year survivial rate and many of these youngsters are doing nicely well into the future.
“Hodgkins Disease is now more than 75 percent curable in its early stages using surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. —
“About SO percent ttf^childnen with osteogenic sarcoma, a cancer of the bone, were dead within two years of treatment which was most often amputation. Now SO percent are alive and a goodly number do not require loss of limb.
“I have seen too many young men die of cancer of the testicle as I stood by helplessly. Now, not all, but many testicular cancers are curable even when the tumor has spread.
“Even certain types of lung cancer are showing dramatic responses to selected chemotherapy while lung cancer remains one of the few preventable cancers known to mankind.
“Interferon has come upon the
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