Word: larynxes
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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...
Cigarettes & Liquor. Wynder and colleagues studied 209 U.S. victims of larynx cancer, 132 of lung cancer (for comparison), and 209 victims of other diseases, including some forms of cancer, of the same ages and backgrounds as the larynx-cancer cases. Their key findings...
...Heavy smoking alone, or in combination with heavy drinking, greatly increases the likelihood of cancer of the larynx...
...likelihood goes up with the amount smoked: if a light smoker (up to 15 cigarettes daily) has X chance of larynx cancer, a 16-to-34 man has almost double that chance and an over-35-a-day smoker nearly four times that chance. Noninhaling cigar and pipe smokers run about the same risk as 16-to-34 cigarette men (higher, relatively, than their risk of lung cancer...
...Larynx cancer is ten times commoner among men than women...