Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After checking 1,990 cases of cancer of the mouth, throat and lung, three National Cancer Institute researchers concluded that regular cigarette smokers are four times as likely to get lung cancer as nonsmokers and also more likely to get cancer of the larynx. Yet, they insisted, this is no scientific proof that smoking causes the cancer: if it did, increases in both types of cancer should parallel the increase in smoking, but cancer of the lung has increased with smoking while cancer of the larynx has not increased to the same degree...
...central Africa, squeezed between the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Mozambique, is a lung-shaped piece of land which last week was shouting lustily for air. The land has no composite name, but, come January 1954, it may well be Rhodesia, the eighth self-governing dominion of the British Commonwealth...
...cancer, the American Cancer Society estimated. If every case had been detected early and treated by the best known methods, 140,000 might have been saved. Launching it's 1953 drive for $18 million, the society said that with present knowledge, cancer-cure rates can be increased thus: lung, 5% to 50%; rectum, 15% to 75%; mouth, 40% to 65%; skin, 85% to 95%; female reproductive system, from 30% to 80%; breast...
Cigarette smoking and breathing the polluted air of cities and industry may cause lung cancers, a doctor's conference was recently told...
...Harrlet L. Hardy, Clinical Associate in Preventive Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, made the suggestion at a Graduate School of Public Health symposium. She said, "It is interesting to consider. . . . the data on cigarette smoking males in relationship to lung cancer in combination with working exposures and urban industrial air pollution...