If prayers are heard in Heaven, this prayer
isheard the most:

“TDear God, please. Not cancer.”

Still, more than 318,000 Americans died of
cancer last year,

This year, Mr. President, you have it in your
power to begin toend thiscurse.

As you agonize over the Budget, we beg you
to remember the agony of those 318,000 Amer-
jcans. And their families,

We urge you to remember also that we spend
more each day on military matters than each
year on cancer research. And, last year, more
than 21 times as much on space research as on
cancer research.

We ask a better perspective, a hetter way to
allocate our money to save hundreds of thou-

sands of lives each year.

America can do this. There is not a doubt in
the minds of our top cancer researchers that the
final answer to cancer can be found.

Already, 4 out of about 200 types of cancer
can be cured with drugs. And 37 other drugs will
cause temporary remission in 17 other types of
cancer.

Dr. Sidney Farber, Past President of the
American Cancer Society, believes: “We are ac
close to a cure for cancer. We lack only the will
and the kind of money and comprehensive plan-
ning that went into putting a man on the moon.”

Why don’t we try to conquer cancer by
America’s 200th birthday?

‘What a holiday that would be! Cancer could
be then where smallpox, diphtheria and polio

CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE CONQUEST OF CANCER

are today~almost nonexistent.

Ifyou fail us, Mr. President, this will happen:

One in six Americans now alive, 34,000,000
people, will die of cancer unless new cures are
found.

One in four Americans now alive, 51,000,000
people, will have cancer in the future.

Wesimply cannot afford this.

Our nation has the money on one hand and
the skills on the other. We must, under your
leadership, put our hands together and get this
thing done.

Surely, the war against cancer has the sup-
port of 100% of the people. It is a war in which
we loat 21 times more lives last year than we Jost

_ In Viet Nam last year. A war we can win and put

the entive human race in our debt.

866 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y., Solomon Garb, M.D., Emorson Foote, Co-chairmon

To the public, cancer patients, their friends
and relatives:

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