Word: larynx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lung & Larynx. Another widely used argument has been that smoking could hardly cause cancer of the inner lung without causing many cancers of the more exposed larynx. Yet the death rate from larynx cancer has not gone up in step with that from lung cancer. This question was tackled by Epidemiologist Ernest L. Wynder, of Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who created a stir 17 months ago when he produced cancers consistently on the backs of mice by using tobacco tar. Said Researcher Wynder: larynx cancer has become commoner, but it has not become a commoner...
...claim that smoking a particular brand "is beneficial to health in any respect," or "nonirritating." Nor would they imply that a brand's ingredients, method of manufacture, length, added filter, etc., reduce nicotine, coal tars and resins unless scientifically proved. The ads would not refer to the "throat, larynx, lungs, nose, or any other part of the body," or to "digestion, energy, nerves or doctors...
Cigar and pipe smokers seem relatively safe, although they do show a propensity for cancer of the larynx, and pipe smokers often contract lip cancer, he remarked...
...scrawls her column in longhand that only her secretary can read, usually rewrites her This Week column five or six times. Clem speaks in a hoarse whisper as a result of an operation in which part of her larynx and vocal cords were removed 20 years ago (it took her a year to learn to talk again). In her summer home in Redding. Conn., she likes to cook in the open fireplace over the coals. "I think I cook a nice meal," she says modestly, prefers simple curries, baked beans and brown bread, spaghetti. One night a week...
...testing each on mice. Parallel work to that at N.Y.U. is going on at two or three other laboratories in the U.S. and half a dozen in Britain. Dr. Wynder himself, now working with Rhoads at Memorial, is digging into the relationship between cigarettes and cancer of the larynx...