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...Heard, on the first birthday of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, that there are four heart-lung machines and about 90 artificial kidneys now in use in the U.S. to tide patients over crises in surgery or systemic poisoning. President Willem J. Kolff of Cleveland showed a disposable artificial kidney made from beer cans, window screening and sausage casing. Cost: about...
Cigarettes & Liquor. Wynder and colleagues studied 209 U.S. victims of larynx cancer, 132 of lung cancer (for comparison), and 209 victims of other diseases, including some forms of cancer, of the same ages and backgrounds as the larynx-cancer cases. Their key findings...
...chance of larynx cancer, a 16-to-34 man has almost double that chance and an over-35-a-day smoker nearly four times that chance. Noninhaling cigar and pipe smokers run about the same risk as 16-to-34 cigarette men (higher, relatively, than their risk of lung cancer...
...smoker who drinks more than six ounces of hard liquor daily is seven times as likely to get larynx cancer as a teetotaler who smokes the same amount. Below six ounces, the liquor does not seem to affect the cancer risk. Liquor does not influence the development of lung cancer...
...disease and premature death is highly complex. On the subject of cancer, the book's editor, Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, supplements some of his reports made at Atlantic City (see above). Smoking, and especially long-continued and heavy smoking of cigarettes, "plays a role in the causation of lung cancer," says Wynder. He is quick to add: "This statement does not deny the role of other factors." What to do? Dr. Wynder does not prescribe total abstinence, but that old standby, moderation. He also hopes that fiiters can be improved or that the cancer-causing factor in tobacco...