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Spanish-born Dr. Marcelino Pascua, WHO's top statistician, had hoped that his report would point a statistical reason for the increase. Other authorities would have been glad to see the question of cancer and cigarette smoking raised to the level of an international debate. But in all Dr. Pascua's mountains of statistics there simply were not enough facts to prove anything positive, because various countries have such widely differing standards of diagnosis and reporting...
...result of better diagnosis, because, for instance, there is no reason why doctors should diagnose it better in men than in women. And because cancer in other parts of the chest cavity shows a negligible rise in men of the age group now most susceptible to lung cancer, Dr. Pascua concludes that the greater number of aging men cannot be much of a factor. On one point nobody could argue: the increase in lung-cancer deaths was heavily concentrated in the 45-plus sge group...
Because there are (and have been for many years) great differences in smoking practices among the several countries, researchers have a hard time relating Dr. Pascua's figures directly to the cigarette habit. Item: the U.S., with many of the heaviest cigarette smokers, had the eighth highest attack rate but the second lowest rate of increase. (Possible reason: the U.S. may have passed its period of sharpest increase before the 1948-52 period.) Says Copenhagen's Dr. Johannes Clemmesen, noting that Denmark's four-year increase in lung cancer among males was 49%: "The higher a country...
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