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Dr. H3.lleboe had earlier made similar comments on the lung cancer rise. REPORTER D3SPATCEi, White Plains, New~York January 3, 1962' Lung Cancer Rise Is Noted, Ainona' hl'Iren in UustateArea ALBANY /Rh-'I'he State Health life beceuse of'the resumption of Department is looking, for some atmospheric nuclear testing by relief this year from its 101iD. the Sovief- Utsion in 5eptember, ma,jor problems that includedl a ~and' subsequent radioactive fall- noticeable rlse in lung, .c'aneer' out over I the statle. among' men, a polio outbreak I and', radioactive "fallout. ' J Virua-Cancer Link . , Significant progress was' made last year, however, in the re- habil'itation of the handicapped and In combatting air poAution and chronic diseases, Commis- slbner Nierman E. Hilleboe said Monday. He said that, in 1961; lung cancer became the commonest form of, disease among men In the 57 counties outside New York City. Betaveen, 19!33' and 1961, he said, the disease's incidence had incredsed from 12.09 to'' 46.46 case for ^ve inn OD0 me n At Rbswell Park Memorial In- stitute In Buffalo-the. health db- partment's cancer research fa• cillty-a research team discover- edl a possible link between vi- ruses and cancer, he saidi Hllleboe said four di ugs under study at the institute had proved, valuable in prolonging lives of' patients suffering from advanced' stages of' cancer. Smoking and Cancer Research! "clearly Indicates /~ that lung cancer occurs much, V~ more frequently in persons who ~ smoke cigarettes than, among non-smokers," Hilleboe, a physi. (Y~, cian, said. 11he polio outbreak struck the " 1 Syracuse area and 80 persons ~ suffered parelysis. The upstate- Long Island anea, had a total of \J 186 paralytic cases ~ in 1951., com- N~ pared' with 126 cases in 1960. ~. During the Syracuse=area out= break, the new type 1 Sabinioref vaccine was given to approxi, mateiy40or000 persons. The commissioner said in- ereased emphasis was placed on monitoring radioactivity llevets in the air, milk, water and marine. THE NEW, YORK TINIES' New York, NeW York January 2, 1962 ALBANY j';)~EP~II~~ The staLe: Dr. Hilleboesaid, ~ has one of the finest radiation surveillance programs in the HEAZT'H PROGRESS natlon... ' He said' the department had been stockpiling medical sup- " plies, setting, up mass treat- Hille!boe Notes Resealrchion ment programs and training professional and lay persons in Cancer and Fall-Out in '61 mass treat'ment techniquesl Dr. Hilleboe cited as a majorr administratave change the de- By LAYH1Y01TD RUBIitiS10~\ partment's aet'ion in eliminating speciar to zme xew Yoa rume<. the designations of race and ALBANY', Jan. 1-Progresa color on copies of birth eertlfd- in cancer research and~improved ca~ile 19811 proved to be a techniques to measure fall-out generally good year for the from nuclear explosions high- health of the state's residents, lighted advances by the State Dr. Hilleboe said, there were Health Department in 19i;1., the some grim developments too. agency reported yesterday. Among the more sigpificant changgs in disease patterra waj In a year-end summary, IDr: the noticeable increase of can- Herman B;, Hilleboe, the State cer of the lung, in men;° he re- Health Commissioner, notet portedl For the first' time; he that cancer research team had noted„ the lung is the most turned up new evidence on vi+ common site of malignancy re- ruses and'. cancer and had car-portedl in men in upstate Nea ried!out experiments with anti-York. Lung cancer occurs most cancer drugs and'radiat'ion that' had "materially reduced" the frequentlly among, cigarette size of, lung tumors, smokers, he said. The experiments were con-, cit'ing the fact that 184 cases : ducted by scientists at the Ftos+of paralytftc polio had' occwrredi welll Park ISlemoriali Institute in, upstate New York in 1961, he said this disease still consti- in Buffalo, which is opera2ed by the departinent. tuted a menace to the public Resumption of atmospheric.health. There were 126 cases test.6ng of nuclear devices by upstate In 1960. the Soviet Union prompted, the The 3m-end report did not departsnent to step up i'ts fall-cont'ain figures for New York ont testing program on the air, City. These are, issued in, a sep- milk, water and marine life. arate annual report by the city..