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...MAURICE FREMONT-SMITH, M.D. Boston...
Boston's Dr. Maurice Fremont-Smith has given a vaginal smear test as a matter of course to nearly all his new women patients for more than five years. Eleven out of 704 showed positive, and one of these proved false. Of the ten who had cancer, seven had the disease in such an early stage that prompt treatment gave them a 90% (or better) chance of surviving five years, and a 65% chance of living ten years. In ordinary practice, most cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed so late that only two victims out of five...
...striking thing about Dr. Fremont-Smith's patients was that only one of the ten cancer victims had gone to see him because she was worried about cancer. The others had such unrelated complaints as fatigue, arthritis, hay fever and headaches. Dr. Fremont-Smith believes that physicians in general will find an early, curable cancer of the cervix in one out of every hundred new patients, if only they will give the test...
...additional Junior Ushers were named by the '52 Class Day Committee yesterday. They are Walter Greeley and Thayer Fremont-Smith. The post is honorary, and the men will help the committee during Senior Week and Commencement exercises this June...
Juniors--George Lewis Batchelder III, Beverly, Mass.; Jerome Howard Blitz, Brookline, Mass.; Howard Alan Cox, Pittsburg, Pa.; Thayer Fremont-Smith, Boston, Mass.; John James Jennings, Salem, Mass.; John Joseph McNamara, Jr., Boston, Mass.; George Martin Yazejian, Belmont, Mass...