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page 16 NORTH LEEDS METER" RIDEAU BRANCH- CANCER SOCIETY EXECUTIVE 1986 1 Canadian Cancer Society P/Lucdeni Joan McCann 272-2843 Soncce to patcenu che Wan/emu 272â€"2237 LOCAL CAMPAIGN CMIRPERSONS Sec/Thwwze/L Etearw/L HandA 272-2360 HEAR ELOGJENT THANKS FROM TOP ONCOLGIST Public/cw Cha/ULpQJIAOH Pout Lime 359-5741 Campaign ChwULpe/wom Ron 5 Ma/btene 359â€"5786 Doboon At the 1986 Cancer Society's Conference, Marlene & Ron Dobson, Campaign Chairpersons for Rideau branch, heard an exemplary speaker and worker for the fight against Cancer. Dr. Phil Gold, Physician-in-Chief of Montreal General Hospital, Head of the Department of Medicine at McGill University, recipient of the Order of Merit and an Officer of the Order of Canada, gave the conference address. Detailing the various aspects of cancer, research and development of treatments, Dr. Gold closed with two of his favourite quotations, very revelant to the fight against cancer: paraphrasing from "Alice in Wonderland“ - "You see, slow sort of country this. If you want to stay in the same place, you must run as fast as you can. If you wish to get elsewhere, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" Dr. Gold then thanked all those volunteers whose efforts "keep our legs a little more brisk" His final remarks gave each person the incentive to try that little bit harder_ from a nephew of Nathaniel Hale: "I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, If your volunteer - canvasser misses you, we would appreciate your I will not refuse to do the Q d ' b - something I can do". (4,. t If we all do "the something we can d d , . > do" our local Rideau branch should 4 e y 0 be able to easily exceed this year's goal...Give generously and help us win! the CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY in your area - Co ncer can be beaten. “There have been very few spec- tacular breakthroughs in can- cer research, and progress is sometimes tedious and difficult, but we're getting there - we are winning," Dr. Phil Gold told Campaign volunteers attending the Saturday morning session at the Ontario Division Cam- paign Conference. Dr, Gold is currently Profesâ€" sor of Medicine and Physiology at McGill University in Montreal, and has devoted many years to cancer research. ONE IN TWG CUREII Dr. Gold told the audience of 500 that one in four people will develop cancer (60 million in North America), but approxi- mately one in two cancer patients will be cured. “In this decade we will have about four million cancer deaths." he said. “Cancer is a major problem but it is a lot less than it used to be. We are moving ahead." Breast cancer is still the lead- ing cause of cancer deaths among women but lung cancer is rapidly overtaking it, Dr. Gold said “You‘ve come a long way baby," said Dr. Gold, in response to this latest statistic. "You can smoke like us and now you can die like us." (Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among men). MANY FACTORS Cancer is caused by a multipli- city of factors accumulated over a lifetime, Dr. Gold explained. “Cancer is an accumulative problem taking place ever many years. Over 50 per cent of all cancer occurs in people over 50." Dr, Gold discussed the biol- ogy of cancer describing can- cer cells as “pushy cells that contact and invade normal tis- sue which destroys normal function. ANGEHCELLS BREAKAWAY “Normal cells of a like type stay together but cancer cells break off the major mass and coloâ€" nize in other parts of the body. These cancerous cells then destroy what they’ve attached themselves to. “Cancer cells destroy locally and at a distance, and can be in place 5 to 15 years before the patient feels the effect of the cancer cells." ' Dr. Gold said that research has been done to see if cancer is a matter of genetics or environment. TWII STUDIES He talked about studies underâ€" taken on two major population shifts â€" Japanese people mov- cir‘ ha. Dr. Phil Gold ing to the west coast ofAmerica, these shifted groups suffered grandchildren of these groups began to acquire the cancers of the place where they’d moved. “For the most part we don’t ‘ think cancer is caused by gene- tic factors, it is caused by our environment. This is everything we eat, drink, and breathe." TREATMENT TECHNIQUES Dr. Gold discussed some treat- ment techniques such as surgery, chemotherapy, radio- therapy, and immunotherapy. “lmmunotherapy may give us the means of finding the tumor and homing into the cell to _ explode it without damaging the _ normal tissue around it." Dr. Gold concluded by saying the magical “panacea” for a ,, cancer cure has not yet been found but that it is only with the volunteers’ efforts that advanceâ€" ments in research happen. “Researchers spend a lot of and the East European Jews from the same types of cancer time thinking about problems moving to the Middle East. that had been evident in their but we need your help to put “The first generation of both homeland. But the children and thinking into action."