Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lung cancer is increasing faster than any other form of cancer, has a lower cure rate than most, will kill 35,000 Americans this year (85% of them...
...superficial, explanations. The combination of a chemical carcinogen (cancer-causing factor) with physical irritation is plainly villainous. Cancer of the scrotum among London chimney sweeps was described by Percivall Pott in 1775. The disease disappeared when the sweeps were taught to wash themselves clean of the carcinogenic soot. Lung cancer from inhaling chromate-ore dusts and nickel-refining fumes can be prevented by the wearing of masks, coupled with adequate ventilation. Even the cancer-causing tobacco-tar fractions isolated by Sloan-Kettering's Ernest L. Wynder (TIME, April 27) seem most potent when their powers are reinforced by irritation...
...done routinely in hundreds of U.S. laboratories, for an estimated total of 3.000,000 tests a year-most of them for healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker cough up deep mucus to reveal lung cancer; swallowed balloons and brushes to catch cells from stomach cancer; special washings to reveal disease in the large bowel and rectum...
...essentially new development in cancer treatment is chemotherapy's advance to the point where it gives relief from pain, and usually longer life, to 60% of patients with cancer of the lung, breast, ovary or prostate, as well as leukemia and Hodgkin's disease. From this has come a surge of confidence that increasingly potent drugs can be found that eventually will effect outright cures. So great is this confidence that the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center now gets the biggest single bite ($23 million) of NCI's budget, with $18 million going out in grants...
Biggest question in prevention today is how the rise in lung cancer-virtually confined to heavy-smoking men-can be checked and reversed. Rod Heller, bureaucrat and son of a tobacco-growing state (although he has never smoked), has weighed all the conflicting evidence and arrived at a forthright conclusion: "Statistical evidence, supported by laboratory findings, has shown that excessive cigarette smoking can be a cause of lung cancer, and that the greater the consumption of cigarettes, the greater the risk." Practical Dr. Heller sees little prospect of changing U.S. smoking habits, pins his hopes for lung-cancer prevention...