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...absolute numbers, the increase in early deaths among heavy cigarette smokers is mainly from heart and artery disease. But the cause of death that shows by far the greatest proportionate jump is lung cancer: it is six times as common among all smokers as among nonsmokers, 9.35 times as common among cigarette smokers...
Britain's Dr. Percy Stocks took up the question of lung cancer and air pollution, reporting on a study of more than 2,000 men who died of lung cancer in smoggy Merseyside areas (centered at Liverpool) and clear-aired North Wales. Among nonsmokers the hazard of smoggy air was clear: 2.3 times as much lung cancer in smoke-palled belts as in cleaner areas. But to the identity of the cancer-causing substance in polluted air, Dr. Stocks had no clue. In smoggy areas, the death rates were almost identical for light smokers (less than a pack...
...difficult case: a girl of 14 who had the disadvantage of being deaf, so that a hearing aid had to be used to communicate with her. After several trial runs, he hypnotized her on the morning of the operation, then gave her light chemical anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their work being done by the heart-lung machine, the surgeon opened her right ventricle. At this moment, speaking through the hearing aid, Marmer asked the girl to open her eyes. She did so at once. He asked her to nod her head if she could hear...
Whatever the mechanics of cancer causation, early detection is essential. A case in point: lung cancer, which will not show up in chest X ray during its earlier stages. When it does show, it is often too late. The trick has been to get cells from lung secretions to make "Papanicoulaou smears" like those made famous in detecting cancer of the cervix and uterus...
...comedy series (The Halls of Ivy), also played host to such career-long friends as Richard Barthelmess and William Powell. It fell to Barthelmess and Powell last week to escort Benita Hume Colman and the Colmans' only child, Juliet, to the funeral of Ronald Colman, dead of a lung infection...