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...battle over the connection between cigarettes and lung cancer, one of the chief arguments on the negative side has been put as a question: Why don't as many women get lung cancer as men? The answer, says Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, and chief developer of the cigarette lung cancer theory, is that women by and large do not smoke as much...
...early 1900s lung cancer was a rare disease, but equally prevalent among men and women, Dr. Wynder told a Brooklyn meeting of the American Chemical Society. By 1954 the overall lung cancer death rate had increased twenty-fold among men, only fourfold among women (21,000 and 4,000 deaths respectively). Dr. Wynder and two colleagues compared the smoking histories of women with lung cancer,(105 cases) with those of women (the same ages) without cancer. Of the cancer victims, 61% were smokers as compared with only 29% among the cancer-free. Among the former, ten times as many...
...used argument has been that smoking could hardly cause cancer of the inner lung without causing many cancers of the more exposed larynx. Yet the death rate from larynx cancer has not gone up in step with that from lung cancer. This question was tackled by Epidemiologist Ernest L. Wynder, of Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who created a stir 17 months ago when he produced cancers consistently on the backs of mice by using tobacco tar. Said Researcher Wynder: larynx cancer has become commoner, but it has not become a commoner cause of death. Reason...
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...
...book, The Biologic Effects of Tobacco (Little, Brown; $4.50). Far from supplying the single, simple answer that so many seek, it makes clear that the relation between smoking, 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...