Amer Cancer Society PSAs

we think you have a right to know where all that money you've been giving for cancer research goes well for little things like uh test tubes for instance they're up to 17 cents a piece and white mice how much you think they are a dozen $17.50 and they have to be fed too it really adds up take this nice new research laboratory here one of our new microscopes can't be had for less than $2,500 and precious Cobalt morning Judy morning $6,000 for half a gr so how does it all pay off well there are one and one half million people walking around today who've been cured of cancer a human life we can't seem to put a price on that my name's Mike I'm 19 and I'm alive I'm alive because of a new kind of treatment I've been receiving since I came down with leukemia 6 years ago not all the kids who get this treatment have done as well as I but more and more of us are making it every year the cancer researchers think they may be close to a cure a permanent cure for leukemia if people keep giving to the American Cancer Society it may really happen I'm Don Butler and this is my wife Peggy Joe about nine years ago our doctor told us something that I wouldn't want any other parent to hear he told us that our baby daughter Diana had wilm's tumor a form of cancer you can imagine how we felt but today as you can see Diana is still with us just a few years ago doctors had been able to SA relatively few children with this type cancer now because of advances in cancer treatment they are able to cure many more and Diana is cured she is one of over a million and a half living Americans who have been cured of cancer of all types help cure more fight cancer with a checkup and a generous check when your volunteer comes calling from the American Cancer Society [Music] is we figured you be here cigarettes they're killers