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avoid. No medications, in-
cluding vitamins, • aspirins,
and birth control pills should
be taken unless approved or
prescribed by the doctor.
Chemotherapy is
something about which the
patient will have many ques-
tions: Will it work? Will I get
nick? How will this affect my
mate and -or my family?
Should I practice birth con-
trol? What kind of con-
traception should.I use? Pa-
tients should .discuss these
questions frankly and
thoroughly with their doc-
tors. •
NEW' AND
UNPROVEN DRUGS
From time to time you will
hear of • new drugs, Or of
drugs offered in other .coun-
tries and not approved by the
health agencies of Canada.
New drugs, as you have
learned, take from one to
fouf years ..to get to the
general '.public. This is,
necessary so that people will
not be exposed to hazardous
and dangerous drugs. The
drugs some claim are , used
with • "great success" in
other countries are either be:
ing tested, or have been
tested and rejected by the
Food and Drug Directorate.
Their toxic effects may far
outweigh the beneficial ef-
fects.
SPECIAL NOTE TO
CANCER PATIENTS
If you are already or about
to be started on
chemotherapy, talk frankly
to your. physician for more
detailed information. No
pamphlet, magazine or book
can take the place of your
physician. He or she is the
only one who knows you and
your particular condition,
and is the best person to
decide .what methods of
treatment may be used or'
combined to help .you com-
bat, c`er. No single
method is best for all pa-
tients. •
No method of cancer treat-
ment is "guaranteed" to
cure cancer, but by combin-
mg different types° of treat-
ment, using them as in-
dicated, and utilizing
chemotherapy when possi-
ble, the outlook • for those
with cancer is much improv-
ed.
A WORD
ABOUT SERVICE
,dancer patients and their
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families may find needed
assistance through the Cana-
dian Cancer Society. The
service rendered through the
Society's Service to Patients
program vary from province
to province, depending on
the extent of the services
covered by the various pro-
vincial government health
plans. For more informa-
tion, call your local unit of
the Canadian- Cancer Socie-
ty.
Lung
cancer
facts
here are the facts
about cancer of the
lung —signs and sym-
ptoms, - progress in
diagnosis and treatment,
prognosis and hope for
the future.
- Lung cancer strikes
more than 100,000 persons
in the United States each
year. It is . the leading
cause of cancer deaths
among men, a„nd the
death rate among women
is steadily increasing.
Although the disease is
among the most lethal of
cancers, more than 80
percent. of all .lung can-
cers are - preventable.
Why? • • Because, unlike
most cancers. the causes
of which continue to
baffle researchers
throughout the world, the
major cause of . lung
cancer is known. It is
cigarette smoking.
While somecases of
lung cancer are caused
by inhaling mining dusts.
or chemicals, there is no
question but that
cigarette smoking is the
major cause of the
disease. This has been
proved . by the .results of
epidemiologic, clinical,
autopsy, and ex-
perimental data ac-
cumulated over more
than 25 years.
The best safeguard
against lung cancer is not
to • start • smoking
cigarettes. The best
protection for those who
do smoke ,is to stop. The
risk of • lung cancer
decreases after only one
year of not smoking;
after 10 years, the risk for
the ex-smoker of
developing lung- cancer
approaches that of a
person who has never
smoked.
Meet some of the members of the Huron Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society. Back row, left
to right, are Russell Jervis, transportation chairman, Marg Hayer, education chairman and
Helen -Davies PD&N chairman. Front row, left to right are Phyllis Pitblado, mastectomy
visitor and Marg Allan, patient services chairman. Absent for photo were Harold Knisley,
president, Ross McDaniel, vice-president, Tom Kelly, treasurer, Jim Remington, campaign
chairman and Howard Aitken, publicity chairman. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
Cancer research requires
patience and talent
Patience as well as
talent is ' needed by a
cancer research scien-
tist; it can be a
frustrating occupation.
Often a researcher must
end his current work and
start all over again from
the beginning.
His lifelong battle
against cancer may not
rate a front page
newspaper story\ but his
results can still be im-
portant as one tiny part of
the jigsaw puzzle of this
disease.
Th.e dedicated in-
vestigator might be
likened to- a small boy
learning to tie his
shoelaces - one of life's
most , baffling un-
dertakings. Success
comes only after many
attempts - some disap-
pointments; a final
struggle.
Cancer is a fact of life.
It still exists in spite of all
the knowledge we have
gained and all the
progress made so far. Its
secrets are slowly being
unravelled through long
hard hours of expensiWe
research, funded by the
National Cancer Institute
of Canada through public
donations to the Canadian
Cancer Society.
Many men and wotnen
are involved in basic
research,, the study of
what happens when a
norma[ cell is tran-
sformed into a cancer
cell. Some are working
with . known animal
viruses, -hormones and
the body's immune
system . Genetics and
YOU KNOW THIS
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BUT DO YOU
KNOW THESE
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CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
chem ical carcinogenesis
claim the scientific at-
tention of other resear-
chers. Clinical research
is an increasingly active
area, covering such
activities as
epidemiology and clinical
trials of new approaches
'to therapy.
All are looking for
answers. Some will find
them.
Only
minutes
The Pap . Test only takes
minutes to perform, but it
gives your doctor a chance to
check for the early signs of
cancer of the cervix. If you
are a woman over 18, you
should take advantage of
this safeguard as often as
recommended by your doc-
tor, says the, Canadian
Cancer Society.
Get ready
to give to
the
Canadian
Cancer
Society,
Huron Unit