Predicts Cancer Will Be Licked
This is a front-page article from the Tamaqua Evening Courier bearing the most wonderful news that cancer will soon be a thing of the past.
Well, this extremely optimistic news actually appeared in the May 22, 1954, edition -- that's 54 years ago. Not only has it proven to be totally incorrect but, the fact is, the rate of cancer has kept skyrocketing since then, WITH NO REAL CURE IN SIGHT.
Here's the article stating that the American Cancer Society was winning the war against cancer, but it actually has made llittle or no progress towards a cancer cure since the article was written..
New hope for cancer victims is seen in a report by one of the nation's leading medical writers who predicts that cancer finally will be licked by a "huge armamentarium of powerful chemicals."
Marguerite Clark, medicine editor of Newsweek Magazine, writing in the May 17 issue of that publication, summarizes her observations of a recent nationwide tour of cancer research centers conducted by the American Cancer Society.
She reported that during the past year for the first time, great emphasis has been placed on drug research than on the two standard forms of treating cancer, surgery and radiation.
She found evidence that chemicals are successfully treating several types of cancer, prolonging lives and alleviating pain.
Mrs., Clark writes that the most heart-warming breakthrough in the cancer fight is that against acute leukemia in young children.
Treated by a series of drugs in many cancer treatment centers, children afflicted with still-incurable leukemia have won stays from death, in some cases for two or three years.
She calls this a "significant step ahead in the cancer battle."
Doctor J. Williams Jones, Pottsville radiologist and chairman of public relations of the Schuylkill County unit of the American Cancer Society, said, "This is one of the finest summaries of cancer research to be published in recent years. It is a hopeful and honest review of the progress being made in the nation's laboratories against cancer.
"In addition to the eight column report, Newsweek in a profile of Mrs. Clark, credits the article as originating from the American cancer Society's coast to cost fact-finding tour for science writers.
The magazine predicts that its writer "had been among the first to see several research projects which will win Nobel prizes in years to come."
