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...American Cancer Society's annual meeting in Manhattan last week, Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond posed a question: "Are we batting our heads against a stone wall-an insurmountable barrier?" On the basis of crude figures he reported: "We are faced with a frustrating fact. Ten short years ago, 177,000 Americans died of cancer. This year it is estimated that 243,000 Americans will die of this disease...
Statistician Hammond (TIME, June 13) was quick to point out that a lot of cancer figures can be misleading. Up to 1930, some of the apparent increase was due to improvements in diagnosis and in the reporting system. Since 1930, the overall cancer death rate among males has risen from 115 to 146 per 100,000 in a year, but this is due almost entirely to the explosive increase in lung cancer; in other forms of cancer the rate is virtually unchanged. Among women, the cancer death rate has actually decreased, from...
...MILES HAMMOND...
SEYMOUR J. GREENBERG Hammond...
...fact that death rates from this disease are higher in the cities than down on the farm. Therefore, they argue, the cause must be smog or exhaust fumes, or simply the sinful exhalations of mass man. They may be half right, but no more, according to Dr. Hammond's figures: the smaller a man's home town, the less likely he is to smoke cigarettes heavily. This accounts for part of the urban-rural difference...