Word: bronchus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy during World War II, and never tapered off. As Lawrence lost weight and complained of always being tired, Dr. Paul Frederick Lister advised him to cut down. Still he went right on smoking. Last August Dr. Lister did a bronchoscopy, found cancer of the lung originating in a bronchus (one of the main branches of the windpipe). In little more than two months the cancer killed Lawrence, 51, husband and father...
British doctors had been debating how to dramatize the cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and such premature deaths, and Dr. Lister knew just what to do. On the death certificate, on the line for "cause of death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive...
Surgeon Graham opened Gilmore's chest. What he saw brought him up sharp. The cancer was not, as he had expected, confined to one lobe of the left lung but had its origin in the bronchus (one of the two major branches of the windpipe) supplying air to the entire lung. Graham looked up to Chalfant. "I'm not going to be able to remove the cancer without removing the whole lung," he said through the muffling layers of his mask. "What do you think about...
...Both the incidence and death rate of cancer of the lung and bronchus more than doubled between...
King George VI's subjects and well-wishers everywhere learned a little more this week about his operation. The drastic surgery to which he submitted was to remove an obstruction (probably cancerous, but the King's doctors still would not say) in the left bronchus, a branch of the windpipe leading to the left lung...