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Ltang Cancer Findings M XV YORK HERALD TRIBUNE New York, New York More You Smoke, Greater may 4, 1954 The Risk, Doctors Decide A practitioners' conference on In contrast, 40 per cent of other than smoking, should not the harmful effects of tobacco the patients with lung cancer, :smoke. It may aggravate thee concluded that the risk of devel- treated before positive symp- disease because it constricts the oping cancer of the lung in- toms occur, are alive five years small blood vessels when they creases in direct proportion to ater. are needed to save the tissue. the amount smoked, and it is The presence of any otherwise; Besides Dr. Forkner, the panel rare for a non-smoker to develop explained density in the lungsi.members were Dr. Greydon the disease. f an individual over fortylBoyd, associate professor of The verbatim text of the con- hould be regarded as lung can-,isurgery at New York University; ference, which was held at New er until proven otherwise. Dr. Norman Wilson, assistant York Hospital-Cornell Medical Effects of Nicotine '~clinical professor of surgery at School, is published in the May The conference devoted its~ ~~ College Medical School; 5 issue of "New York Medicine," major attention to cancer of the~ Dr. Irving S. Wright, professor official publication of the Med- lung, but it also explored the of clinical medicine at Cornell ical Society of the County of effects of smoking on other dis-I University Medical College, and New York, distributed yesterday. eases and reached these con-!, pl' Ernest L. tJVynder, chief resident at the Memorial Center. At the end of the seventeen- clwsions: 1 page article, Dr. Claude E. Fork- Nicotine, rather than tars, is1 ner, professor of clinical medi- the active agent in tobacco that cine at Cornell University Medi- affects the blood vessels and cir- cal College and chairman of the culation. It is harmful whether practitioners' conference, sum- it comes from cigarettes, cigars, marized thb findings. ;pipes or chewing tobacco, since Other Conclusions it is absorbed through the mu- Other conclusions were that: cous membrane of the mouth. Smoking cigars or a pipe ap- Nicotine decreases peripheral pears less hazardous in lung blood circulation. Smoking a cancer than smoking cigarettes, single cigarette may produce a in which smoke is commonly: drop of 3 to 9 degrees centigrade in the temperature of the fingers,, ~Thedspecific element In the and this is true whether stan-; ~ dard brands are used or the so-i tars from cigarette smoke be- called denicotinized cigarettes. ; lieved responsible for cancer has not been Identified. Filters Don't Help The patient with lung cancer A number of filters have beenl who can be saved usually is with- tested and found to be ineffective out symptoms or other physical in blocking these vascular findings, and the diaguosis often changes. can be proved only ley an ex- yn patients with so-called ploratory operation. Buerger's disease, the smoking In 90 per cent of the patients of even one cigarette may pro- with positive symptoms of lung duce a recurrence of gangrene NEW YORK POST cancer, the disease has already in the extremities. spread to other parts of the body, Individuals with Impaired New York, New York and the victims die within iive circulation, caused by disorders May 4 1954 fears, in spite of vigorous treatr Inent, Cancer-Causing Tars in Tobacco Elude Research, Expert Reports pro- Although e x c e s s i v e cigaret Writing in the May 5 issue, Dr. cancer to ~~ amoun direct smoked. smoking is believed to cause lung Claude E. Forkner, chairman oi portion rarely develop the cancer, the disease•causing tars a recent conference on lung can• disease. Smoking cigars or pipes in the smoke have not been iden• cer at the New York Hospital- appears less hazardous t h a n tified, according to New York Cornell Medical S c h o o 1, re• ~g~~t smoking, where the smoke Medicine, publication o f t h e ported: comn:only is inhaled. County Medical Society. The risk of developing lung 7he cancer-eausing tars in cigaret smoke have not been identified.