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Studies in 14 different countries have all shown a clear-cut association between smoking and lung cancer, David D. Rutstein '30, professor of Preventive Medicine, reported last night...
...were pleased indeed to read in your Feb. 6 Medicine section of the invention by our company of a special dictating machine for iron-lung patients and other victims of paralysis. We should point out, however, that you have referred to the equipment in question as a Dictaphone, which is the trade name of our good friends, the Dictaphone Corp., not of our firm, Sonograph Ltd., which is the major Canadian company in the dictating-machine field here...
...battle over the connection between cigarettes and lung cancer, one of the chief arguments on the negative side has been put as a question: Why don't as many women get lung cancer as men? The answer, says Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, and chief developer of the cigarette lung cancer theory, is that women by and large do not smoke as much...
...early 1900s lung cancer was a rare disease, but equally prevalent among men and women, Dr. Wynder told a Brooklyn meeting of the American Chemical Society. By 1954 the overall lung cancer death rate had increased twenty-fold among men, only fourfold among women (21,000 and 4,000 deaths respectively). Dr. Wynder and two colleagues compared the smoking histories of women with lung cancer,(105 cases) with those of women (the same ages) without cancer. Of the cancer victims, 61% were smokers as compared with only 29% among the cancer-free. Among the former, ten times as many...
However, he was taken immediately to the hospital where the doctors realized that one lung had been punctured and that both had collapsed. They immediately operated. Saturday he was on the critical list but after a good night's rest the doctors considered that he was making a good recovery. The hospital surgeon said that the principal concern now was to get the air out of Roy's chest...