Public Law 87–464

JOINT RESOLUTION

To designate calendar year 1962 as Cancer Progress Year.

Whereas in 1937 the National Cancer Institute Act was enacted by Congress and the first nationwide educational campaign was launched by the American Cancer Society; and

Whereas there has been developed in the United States the most massive research attack against cancer ever mounted against a single disease; and •

Whereas the attack on cancer has been vigorously waged for twenty-five years by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society; and

Whereas great strides have been made in cancer control, public education, and patient service; and

Whereas about one hundred and sixty thousand persons had been cured of cancer in 1937 and today more than one million one hundred thousand persons have been cured of the disease; and

Whereas the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute have demonstrated the need for complementary efforts by the people on a voluntary basis and by the Federal and local governments in the attack on this dread disease; and

Whereas the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute are joining in observing Cancer Progress Year throughout 1962; and

Whereas the purposes of Cancer Progress Year are to report to the public where science stands in cancer research, to persuade the public to act for its own protection, to improve the care of the cancer patient, and to accelerate programs to conquer cancer: Therefore be it

Resolved, That the Congress of the United States designate calendar

Cancer Progress Year, 1962.

Proclamation authorization.

year 1962 as Cancer Progress Year; and be it further

Resolved,

Approved May 31, 1962.