Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recessive Gene. After Dr. Andersen defined cystic fibrosis, doctors saw that previously they had been dismissing the lung symptoms as pneumonia, and confusing the intestinal upset with something else-celiac disease. Gradually, they learned that cystic fibrosis is by no means rare; by current estimates, one child in 600 is affected. It is inherited and may strike all the children in a susceptible family, or only one in ten, but the average is one in four...
There is a chicken-and-egg argument as to what the root cause of the trouble is. Some doctors believe that it lies in the mucous glands, which secrete an unusually thick, viscid mucus. This clogs the lung airways and also blocks the tiny ducts in the pancreas, so that its enzymes (notably trypsin) do not get through to the digestive tract. Others think the pancreas itself is at fault, and that its failure to produce enough enzymes causes both the intestinal trouble and the stickiness of the mucus...
...simple relationship, because no factor that causes cancer of the lung has yet been found in tobacco tar, and some of the increase in lung cancer is probably due to other things, such as atmospheric pollution...
...committee of Britain's top cancer specialists has taken a long, hard look at the connection between smoking and lung cancer, Health Minister Iain MacLeod told Parliament last week, and has reached these conclusions...
...miles per hour. 62. Recent medical claims of a connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer resulted in a group of the large tobacco companies: 1. Urging cigar and pipe smoking...