Word: lungfuls
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...Lung cancer, usually rated as hard to diagnose until it is far advanced, may be detectable in its earliest stages, suggested Radiologist Leo G. Rigler of the University of Minnesota. Rereading of chest X rays taken as long as nine years before the patients were found to have lung cancer revealed abnormal shadows and marks.Dr. Rigler believes that these were danger signals, not recognized in time...
...During pregnancy, a Type 0 woman is more likely to develop toxemia. ¶ The danger of lung cancer seems unrelated to the ABO groupings, but one study suggested that Rh-negative people are slightly less subject to this fast-increasing disease than others. ¶ Cancer of the stomach is significantly commoner among Type A subjects, but no such relationship has been found in cancers elsewhere...
Cureall. In Richland, Wash., Dr. R. R. Denicola reported that in an operation to cure a patient's severe coughing, he removed a surgeon's glove that had been lodged in one lung for twelve years...
...question which had started the whole ruckus-"Does cigarette smoking eventually cause lung cancer?"-the statisticians had to hedge. They did not yet have enough cases to be certain. But on the basis of gleanings to date, they concluded that death from lung cancer is three to nine times as common among cigarette smokers as among nonsmokers, and five to 16 times as common among those who smoke a pack a day or more...
...less striking were the statisticians' findings that even the most moderate cigarette smokers (half a pack or less a day) also showed significantly higher death rates from both heart disease and cancer than nonsmokers, and that the increase includes all types of cancer, not only in the lung. Cigar and pipe smokers show no consistent increase in mortality. There is less chain-smoking of cigarettes in rural than urban areas, and the rural death rates from heart disease and cancer are lower...