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• 1aUtALD-1PE1aS Passaic, 17Ev Jersey . Apri1 6, 1962 -Mrs. Gesner;V'ictina Herself, Sure of Smokingr-Cancer Link PASSAIC' - Mrs. FYanees rhairs. The dressfnp, provitled free for treatment of advanced cases, can cost as much , as ta3:- S40 a week if purchased,outside, alye said. .'14ie real foundation of the phapter program is not welfare work with terminal, patients, Mrs• Gesner said, but education to get people to recognize the danger signs and to seek medl- cal care in time to be cured. "TBERE 18 no question about Ht," she said. "Half again aa many persons could be cured as are actually being cured, it they would only get to the doe+ tor in time: Of the 12T persons who died last year in Pasaak, half might have been saved if they had gone to the doctor I earlier "' Speaking of her own cases, Mrs. Gesner recalled that' the had paid $20 an hour for private lessons to learn to talk after her own cancer operation cost her her larynx. "By golly, no one!s going to shut me up; " she said. This service is now given free by volunteer members of the Lost Chords, she pointed out: Mrs. Gesner's operation cost only a part of her vocal chords and she has since undergone 3e reconstructive o p e r a t i o n e to stretch scar tissue across the in-tervening space. As a result, shee saidJ her voice is now nearly normal, not.the usual.laryngee-tomee's husky whla r. Mrs. Gesner concluded with l request for support from the Lions during the socSety's cur- Dy ufry rstcxoa; for the Passaic County Chapter, .of I.,O00 men smokinA more ~.a. American Cancer Socibtyt told than 20 ctgarette~~s a--day, 86 `~ the Passaic,I,ions Club yesterday probably will dle of lung txa that she personally has no doubt ~ there is a connection between cer, a Mason City surgeon "~' cigarette smoking and cancer: saidl here :liuraday. Among >~ Gesaer has recovered Gom caaoer of the larynx her.- and she was the organixer of self than five' less emokera wn , , , - t ~ the Lost' Chords of New ]ersey; ~~e` whose members have had! all or r The risk of'dying from hmg Npart of their vnral chords surr cancer is directly'proportional g+oalty rcmoved usually fo ncer. to the amount smoked and eaThe Last Chords now have 1'7K there la no evidenct ot' a I memben; Mrs. Gesner said, 173 men and herself.. "threshold" amount below ~~ "You can see I knew what I was doing when I founded it," which there Is no added'risk ~ ah'e saidi of dying, said Dr. Alexander Q, Of the 174, ahe said, not one ]Vlatthewe, generelland thorac• wu not a smoker prior to be- d ing atricken Ic surgeon at the Park Clinic i Mrs. Geancr said the cancer, society was so sure there waa. .in Mason, C•ity., a relation that-it is curnentJy de+ Iie addressed the annual voting great eSorts to, anti, meetin of the Iowa Tuber•smok'mgprograms mthe.schoolsn g we feel the adults are a1- culoais and Health• Associa• ready hooked," she said. "But' Hotel Savtry: we feel'that if we can influenee tlbn at . loday"t fourth and fifth graders •Today, 26 surveys In . not, to amoke, we may save countries the countless thousands from death e~t point to 'from cancer ih 20ior 30 years." overwhelming prevalence If,present rates of cancer iu- ".t etf cigarette smokers as jeidence . continue . to hold true, ~ king cancer victims,n" said and anti-smoking campaigns are - Dr. Matthews. _. • tnelfective; shee said, aa million present sehooi! children will "Phe A m e r l e a n Public •eventually die of cancer of the f the lar nx y . lung,or cancer o Health Association estimates Mrs. Gesiner aaidi there were that i! the trends continue, about one million, youngsters now ln school will die of lung cancer before they reach age 70. . "'In the past 20 years there has bee n in explosive in- crease In the ineldence of' lung cancer to the point where It has reached epidemic 127 caocer deaths In Passaic inlrent fund drive. 19e1, and 48 of these patients Normc-•i Schepps, club presl- received some form of aid fromldent, appointed a nominating the cancer chapter. She Ilsted mmittee to seWM officers for the assistance furnished as In- ~a coming , year. Ita members, chuding practical nurses, special ll past presidents, are Aaron ~ evine, chairman; George Y,o- medications visiting nurses, ra~ dium„ dressings, equlpment ren- talb and loan eloset items such u bospiW bede 'and wheel proportions in males over 40. ••But' we shouldn't try . to In 1940, : 6,979 Americans blame the rise in,lung cancer died ob lung'cancer. In 1960, on exhaust,gases. If this were the figtire 'was 38!001D. true, coi garage workers and truck drivers wouldl be 61 Mllllnn Smoken, . dying of It." "The iiI!se of lung cancer "Tobacco industry spokes- tltroughout the worldicloaely men continue to issue denials follows Oe rise in consump- Df the validity of scientdste^ ~on of eigarettes. An average findings and conclusions and. 930J000 cigarettes are the press gives the denials. .bought each minute by ap- equal prominence with sci- proximately 8i1 milllon Amer- entific f i n d ii n g s;' Dc d h ews sat .. ican enokers. , ~lett Dr, Matthews sa1Jl, he ibtormatlon Gap ' didn't talean, to hnply that ' "Futhermore, the nuss "tobacco smoke ls' the media, which collect miilions sole cause of lung cancer."' i - lar, Salvato•a Lomauro,. Harry Dlamond and! Dr. A. Fred 6en- Ia1dlJ of dollars from, tobacco ads each year, have failed to fill the lnf(Irmational gap on the subjecL of cigarette smoking and luog, Canur: '7a addltioo, very' little Is' being dosr by locali medical groups, state and health services and ihdh vldual i p, h y s i c i,ans too spread the facts" Dr.,' Matthews said cigar andipipe smokers are not as likely to acquire lung cancer because they don't Ihhale. sPCKESKnft-REYZEW Spokane, Washington April 8, 1962 -Excessive . ~Clorette ~ U§e B~~amed". Liang Cancer Rate Is Cited Elgtity-ftve per txnt of the hmg'. tanctn found In American malb are caused by'exeessive cigarette smoking, a noted Eastern eaooer specialist said l ln Sppkane Satar- day: Evidence llnldng smoking' with ltmg cancer is so oversrhelming, eaid Dr. George E. Moore, that' doctors can now accurately pre- diot when a man will get lung cance' if'he ib a srnoker. The prediction is based on the nmfber of cigarettes a person constnnes eacli day, he said, and' the numlier of years he has . smoked. Even the man who smmoka only  baH a package of cigarettes a day, fi a likely target for lung cancoe„Moore said, "Saoatlag Life Away" The man who smokes two or three pants a day "is smoking his life away," lie added. Moore, who la a nonsmoker. fs the diivxtnn arid chief of surgery at the Aoswell Park Memorial Institufe. Buffalo, N•F. Of'300 patients now being treAi+ ` ed fer lung canoer at,h'is bospital1 be said, onl,y,six are nonsmokers. R'De huge increase in the inci- ` deneei dhmg catwer is d_finitely firei to the fact that more people are amoking: ' he said in an inter- view• Wtiat about' doctors who say tbere is no connection between cigarettes and lung cancer? °You uaually find out If ' you inveatigate that they are being retained by the tobacco indus- nry; ' Moore said. "Basei knowledge we already h'ave I ion't see how any doctor could ..y that cigaretta an not a eause•" 9Yunerous growths can be In- duced In 40 per cest of'the, anla mall used in cancer testing , lals oratoriea simply by painting the akin three times a week with'a smoke conderoate, Moore saldJ The cancer begins to appear about a year after the itests begin. Moore was guest speaker, Satr. tudap at the 24th 'annual meet- les of the Spokane Surgical So- ciety atttie Davenport Hotel.