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Stanford University's Dr. Leo H. Garland reported that unselected screening has turned up only an average of ten cases of lung cancer for every 100,000 persons examined, and he calculated that X rays taken every six months of men over 45 would show 50 cases per 100,000. There are 22 million men in that age group in the U.S., and each year they would need at least 44 million minifilms (35-mm.), plus 1,000,000 larger films for checking suspected cases...
Moreover, argued Radiologist Garland, many victims of lung cancer do not submit to surgery promptly after diagnosis, so they get no benefit from the procedure. Worst of all, surgery adds but little to the life expectancy in most cases. Concluded Dr. Garland: "The yield in lives actually saved or even made more comfortable by this [Xray] program . . . appears to be so small that one cannot urge its imposition on the general public...
Many of his colleagues thought that Dr. Garland was unduly pessimistic. Some mass X-ray surveys, they argued, have turned up much higher percentages of lung-cancer cases than those he cited. By improving their techniques, some doctors hope to do an even better job of detection. Washington's Dr. Edgar W. Davis suggested one improvement-X-ray specialists should realize that half of the tumorlike masses which appear benign on the plate are actually malignant, so that the rule should be: when in doubt, operate as early as possible...
...learn that she must die of leukemia, perhaps even before the baby is born. Blunt-featured Richard Boone carried authority as the doctor who fights to keep the mother alive until childbirth, and the delivery-room scenes were as sensational and convincing as anything yet seen on TV. Beverly Garland heartbreakingly suggested the courage and despair of the doomed wife, while Lee Marvin did remarkably well with the necessarily skimped role of the husband...
...radio listeners are oppressively aware of a jazzy singing commercial sung by a voice that sounds like a temporary compromise between the voices of Judy Garland and Bonnie (Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!) Baker. "I love to cook and cook and cook," she burbles, and proceeds to cite the virtues of Hunt's tomato sauce. One day last spring Columbia Records' sharp-eared Mitch Miller heard the voice on his car radio. The light dawned. "There's a voice." he said to himself, "that sounds like a sexy 16-year...