Word: cancers
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...Skin cancer from exposure of the face, neck and hands to sun and wind was first described by Germany's Paul G. Unna in 1894 as Seemanns-haut. A dozen years later, William Dubreuilh made an observational refinement in the Bordeaux vineyards : women got skin cancer on the parts of their faces left exposed by their scarves, while men got it on the back of the neck. In the U.S., 91% of skin cancer is on the hands, face and neck, 2% is on "occasionally exposed" sites, and 6.5% on sites never ordinarily exposed...
Skin Screen. An individual's risk of harmful consequences, ranging from sunburn to cancer, is in inverse ratio to the density of the screen built into his own skin-the amount of pigment in the epidermis. This is most clearly shown, said Dr. Knox, in the contrast between the albino Negro, who has no tolerance whatever for the sun's tanning and burning rays, and the normal Negro, who has a high degree of tolerance, increasing with the darkness of his skin...
...time, concluded Dr. Knox, for the medical profession to begin an educational campaign on the harmful effects of excess exposure to sun, and advocate use of preparations to ward off both premature aging of the skin and cancer. Blondes, he suggested, can keep that schoolgirl complexion longer if they use powder and makeup bases with built-in chemical sun screens. It was with no hint of boasting that Dallas' Dr. James B. Howell noted: "Texans have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the population of any state...
From painstaking ten-minute to half-hour microscopic examinations of each of 19,797 exquisitely thin slivers of tissue from human lungs, medical researchers reported last week that they had found the strongest anatomical evidence that heavy cigarette smoking is a potent cause of lung cancer. At the A.M.A.'s Dallas meeting, Dr. Oscar Auerbach of East Orange, N.J. told how he and a distinguished colleague, Dr. Arthur Purdy Sout (retired professor of pathology at Columbia Uni versity's College of Physicians and Surgeons), had examined the magnified tissue slides, cell by cell. Working with them were...
Virtually all previous evidence linking cigarettes with lung cancer has been based on epidemiological studies-retrospective checks on whether victims had been heavy smokers and prospective checks on whether many heavy smokers eventually died of the disease. Wanted, said critics of these studies, was anatomical evidence showing the gradual development of cancer in smokers' lungs. Dr. Auerbach's previous reports (1955 and 1957) on this development had been challenged on technical grounds. This time, his four-man team was determined to plug every conceivable research loophole...