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...some of the apparent increase was due to improvements in diagnosis and in the reporting system. Since 1930, the overall cancer death rate among males has risen from 115 to 146 per 100,000 in a year, but this is due almost entirely to the explosive increase in lung cancer; in other forms of cancer the rate is virtually unchanged. Among women, the cancer death rate has actually decreased, from...
What is worse, if lung-cancer death rates increase at the present tempo, 306,000 Americans will die of cancer in 1965. Can we prevent this from coming true...
Statistician Hammond hopefully answered his own question: "One-third of all those who die of cancer could be saved by methods known to us now." If this is accomplished in the next ten years and lung cancer is controlled, only 173,000 will die in 1965. But, said Hammond, there is a big if: these lives can be saved only if physicians apply present knowledge with maximum effectiveness. And what doctors can do depends basically on what cancer victims do-how soon they go for examinations when they have suspicious symptoms, how soon they have an operation after...
...human patients. A section of coronary artery near the chest wall (in which most occlusions occur) is either opened, scraped clean and sewed up again, or is removed and replaced with a healthy length of artery. Operation time, in a "dry field" (using a heart-lung machine): half an hour...
...content with elaborate heart-lung machines to permit operations inside a patient's heart, or marrow-chilling techniques to drop his temperature, Dr. Frank Gollan of Nashville VA Hospital combined the two. He has devised a cheap ($250) pump-oxygenator with a refrigerated coil like those used in bars to cool beer. Not yet ready for use on human beings, the machine has dropped a dog's temperature to 55° F., and the animal has made a good recovery after operation...