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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – When the American Cancer Society was founded 112 years ago, a cancer diagnosis meant near-certain death.

Doctors sometimes did not even tell their patients they had cancer, and patients often did not tell their friends and families that they had been diagnosed with it, the organization’s website says. ×

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