Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extreme pessimism regarding cancer of the lung is no longer justified, said the University of Tennessee's Dr. Duane Carr. Even in cases which are found too late for surgery to help, deep X-ray treatments and drugs (nitrogen mustard and triethylene melamine) will relieve pain and prolong life...
...Better yet, doctors from Manhattan's Memorial Center demonstrated a promising and simple procedure for detecting lung cancers early. With a deep cough, the patient brings up sputum into a little bottle of jsopropyl alcohol. (He can take the bottle home overnight.) A Papanicolaou smear (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950) shows whether cancerous cells are present. Remote general practitioners can use the technique if they mail the bottle to a qualified laboratory...
Placing the blame for lung cancer directly on smoking, the Elis have devised a "smoker's kit" which they hope will be a satisfactory substitute. The kit includes life-savers to take the place of smoke rings, matches to light friends cigarettes, and a nail file for people who want to smoke and also wish to spare their finger nails...
...proved that lung cancer in any human being is directly traceable to tobacco or to its products in any form . . . There are a few scientists who report that by using a high concentration of cigarette smoke-entirely different from the smoke which a person draws from a cigarette-and painting it on the skins of mice, they have produced skin cancers on the mice. On the other hand, there are many more scientists of high repute who have made similar experiments and have reported that no cancers were produced. Moreover, all scientists agree that there is no known relation between...
...policy . . . to extend cooperation to projects where we believe that the researchers are approaching and will approach the subject without prejudice and without preconceived opinions . . . We are confident that long-range, impartial investigation . . . will confirm the view that neither tobacco nor its products contributes to the incidence of lung cancer...