Word: wynder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Theories as to how reserpine-type alkaloids might influence breast cancer are inconclusive. A leading U.S. cancer epidemiologist, Manhattan's Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, believes that the action is not to cause the cancer-that usually takes many years-but to stimulate or accelerate its development. A somber Lancet editorial suggests that doctors will now have to weigh the apparently greater risk of breast cancer against the advantages of lowering blood pressure for mature women...
...convinced that the value of periodic examinations is provable is Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, the first physician to produce firm evidence that cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, who is now a crusader for preventive medicine. As a director of the New York-based American Health Foundation, Wynder has persuaded six corporations* to finance the Health Maintenance Center, which opened early this month in mid-Manhattan. It is the last word not only in multiphasic testing but also in automation...
...referred immediately to one of four "intervention clinics" maintained on the floor below by the American Health Foundation. There he may be placed on special diets or exercise regimens, or helped to stop smoking through hypnosis or psychological support. "When the center detects a health risk factor," says Wynder, "we like to intervene immediately. We don't want to lose patients-we want to get them while they're hot." Eventually, Wynder hopes, there will be a dozen or more such examination centers across...