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With the amount of energy I have, that's where the biggest funds lie.

Q:

That's where it's right and fitting anyway.

Lasker:

Yes. But if everybody really understood and wanted to take some action, believe me, a lot more action could be taken.

Q:

You have a certain built-in element there in that cancer is a threat to everybody and it is a threat in which fear is involved in a sense that heart disease is not.

Lasker:

But heart disease ought to because if you don't die of cancer, you're going to die of heart disease. Seventy-one per cent of the people are going to die of one or the other.

Q:

But they fear cancer more than anything else.

Lasker:

So my greatest ally, as I was saying, was Albert; and Florence Mahoney has been my ally for the last 20 years. Anna Rosenberg Hoffman helped me very much in the beginning with





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