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RESOLUTION 71-13
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
�a C FLORIDA DIVISION, INC.
V ��e INDIAN RIVER COUNTY CHAPTER
N P.O. BOX 1587, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA 32960
J �O OFFICIAL CRUSADE PROCLAMATION FOR 1971
WHEREAS, there are more than 1,500,000 Americans alive today,
who have been cured of cancer, and
WHEREAS, 25 years ago fewer than one -in -five cancer patients was
being saved. Today, one out of three is cured of cancer, and
WHEREAS, one out of two cancer patients can be cured with present
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knowledge and methods of treatment, if diagnosed in time and properly
treated, and
WHEREAS, an annual physical checkup and knowled;e of the Seven
Warning Signals of cancer, popularized by the American Cancer Society,
can help save thousands of lives from cancer, and
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WH&4EAS, some cancers can be prevented; most lung cancers are
caueed by cigarette smoking, and most skin cancers by frequent exposure
to direct sunlight, and
WHEREAS, public education can help save thousands of lives now
being lost to preventable cancers, and
WHEREAS, the American Cancer Society has produced life-saving
leaflets about the checkup and the Seven Warning Signals, that are
being distributed to the people of Indian River County, and
WHEREAS. the Amerloan Cancer Soolety is etepping up its research
efforts in the searoh for causes and cures of cancer.
Therefore, BE IT iEI.OLV»D --
That all residents of this county be urged to support the
educational enc f-unEl m'ping efforts of the American Cancer Society
as part of Cancer Control Month in April.
Done under my hand this le day
of 4-I416hof-in the year of our Lord,
One Thousand Nine Hundred and
Seventy -One.
Chairman. Board of -County
Commissioners
Indian River County
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