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NEWS -'thougk cancer is generally regarded as a deadly disease, the American Cancer society Sunday reported there are mot7e than 1,20o;f100 perople in this' country who have been "Cured" of the affliction. ~'Facts and Figuies booklet' The society estimated that,said 75 per cent'of lung can- About.177y00p people develop-Iear cases could be prevented ittg' cancer im 1'963' will be H people did' not smoke cig- -4aved.. Or that number, it agrets. The Tobacco insti- saiid„ about 44,000 would not I liave been saved if they had I tt te, which spea7slor the in- 4eveloped the disease a few I dustTy, maintains that no con- years ago: i clusive scientific proof has The. society said "cured" I been offered that cigarets ~ peopla * aM those who "are cause cancer. glive, without evidence of The society booklet esti- the disease, at' -ieast five yeara r after diagnosis and mated 35,300 1 u n g cancer Con*etion of treatment." deaths among men and 5,500 Alsa; the society estirnated' that another :.700,000 U. S. vancer patients who havee been diagnosed and treated -within the last five years 'wsll live to enter the ranks tof those we calli cured:"' The statistics were made available on the eve of the society's 49th annual ~neeting here, which will run today through.Fridny: The figures also incltrded the society's estimate that 1:52,000, males and 125,000 fe- 1VEW YORK -{ffi- Al-, males will die of cancer, ia 1693 if present rates prevail. I Until about ]5 years ago, ,the society said, more worn- 'en than men diedi of, cahcer. The society's 1963 Cancerr among women for 1963. . Nevarlt, New Jersey October 22, 1962 By MAI.CUIIII M. MANBER' that ia per cein e society felt Th e ~taff C~e~~~t. I of lung cancer cases could be 12 NEW YORK-More than prevented if persons did not ; ~ million Americans are now alive smoke cigarettes. -- s '": who have had-and been cured These statistics appear in the of-cancer, the American Cancer society~s."1963 Cancer Facts and' Society declared yesterday. pigures," released the day be- Considered "cured" by the so- fore the opening of the society's'= eiety are those who are without 49th annual meeting at the Bilt- evidence of the disease "at least fiore Hotell Approximately 1.000' five years after diagnosis and' persons are expected to attend completion of tieatment ° the week-long, session that begms 1ne society es[lmatea mai[ today. ~ some 530,OOO new cancer casess will be diagnosed for the first time in 1963-including about ,22,D0o' in New Jersey. The first two f avc W "'- mg will be devoted to a sven :~ tifc program called "The Clinical Impact of a Quarter of a Century ', Hopeful, Prospects Of that total, the society said some 177,000-about one in three -will be eured by surgery, radia- tlon and X-ray treatments, or drugs and chemicals. Of' the 177,000, it added, 44,000 would not have been saved.if they had de- veloped the disease several years ago. The society also estimated that another 700;000 patients whose cancer was diagnosed and treated within the last five years will live to enter the ranks of the °curedl.'• The society said about 280;0N) persons i_n this country will die .of': cancer in 1963, about 5;000 more than~ in 1962. ;t added that 4& million Americans now, living will eventually have 'cancer,- andd that the disease will strike, "over the years," in apWroximately two out of three American, families. Rap at Smoking Uterine cancer, once the lead- ing cause of cancer deaths among,, women, has been cut by about 50 per cent in the last 25 years as a result of earlier diagnosis andl better treatment, the society jobserved! - But at the same time, lung cancer among menwill climb •t,o an estimated 35,300 deaths in~ ~1963, against, 5,500 for women.; , of Cancer Research." Among those who will' partici4. pate are Dr. Wendell' M. Stanley of the University of Califorma, `~ a Nobel Prize winner and expert' `Y:;;9, on vifuses, and Sir Robert Platrt, ^_;=A past president of the Royal Co1- lege of P'hysicians oT London and head of the conun9ttee which produced the' much,discussed re- ` port, " moking and Health; ' ;, x which 1ed to a s arp drop in mt; -, arette smoking and advertising' in England. Xy<