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Where Is the Villain? The earliest, most dramatic progress came in the field of heart surgery. When they could deal with disease by the use of scalpel and mechanical ingenuity, U.S. doctors have worked wonders, e.g., the complex blue-baby operation, opening the mitral valve inside the heart, heart-lung machines, even the use of a dog's lung to substitute for the patient's during an operation...
...Connecticut. In twelve years, the overall survival rate of males with cancer increased from 12% to 20%, and of females from 19% to 32%. Chief reason: better treatment of cancer of the rectum, colon and cervix. However, the survival rate in the test period for ovary, brain, esophagus, lung and stomach cancer did not improve...
...failed to recover after the second operation, she was moved to the sparsely equipped, twelve-bed cancer hospital in the coastal city of Recife, where Dr. Valdemir Lopez, the hospital's director, found that a form of cancer (osteosarcoma) had spread from her arm to her right lung. He told the little teacher the truth: probably no more than a few months to live. "Of course," he added gently, "a miracle is always possible...
...Club promised to donate all profits from a Sunday's racing, and Marta Rocha announced plans for a star-studded charity show. Meanwhile, as Bernadete's plight drew national attention, Brazilian Specialist Albert Coutinho offered to perform a drastic, last-chance operation involving removal of the right lung. Bernadete decided against it. "My death," she said, "will be more useful than my life. People will not forget...
...Angeles came down last week with the worst case of that chronic big-city ailment, smog. Though usually its immediate effects are only smarting eyes and sore throats, smog can have serious indirect consequences, including traffic accidents, respiratory trouble, possible (though not proved) influence on lung cancer. Scientists measure the strength of a smog bout by the amount of ozone in the air. If the ozone count ever reaches 1.5 parts per million, public health officials fear disaster. The Los Angeles smog last week reached 0.90. California's Governor Goodwin Knight stood ready to declare the city a disaster...