Choose To Live Cancer

Choose To Live Cancer EXT US Public Health Service building, Washington. MCU Surgeon-General Thomas Parran talks over montage of everyday US life, construction workers, farming, women on switchboard w/ statistic ‘1 out of every 10 dies of cancer’. 19:30:57 Dramatisation of woman’s experience w/ cancer; family around table; sees children off to school, kisses husband; housework, picks up notepad; CU ‘Club Meeting 2.30 Thursday’. 19:32:11 VS doctor addressing women’s club re: cancer, housewife Mrs Brown in audience; “...at least a third of those who die of cancer could be saved if they started treatment early enough...50,000 needless deaths a year”. Montage of technicians performing medical research in labs. 19:33:54 Mice removed from boxes on shelf, injected by technicians. EXT National Institute of Health and National Cancer Institute; Dr Karl Btergman. EXT Congress; CU bill signed by Roosevelt designating one month each year as Cancer Control Month. VS surgeons at work; MCU women on hospital beds having x-rays taken. Medical science. Animal testing.