I also invite the medical profession, the press, the radio, the moving picture industry and all agencies and individuals interested in a national program for the control of the disease of cancer by education and other cooperative means to unite during this month in a public dedication to such a program and in a concerted effort to impress upon the people of the Nation the necessity of that program.
Proclamation 2683—Cancer Control Month, 1946
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