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: C70UPtIER EXPRESS Buf'f'alo, New York JtiLly 21, 1962 • _ Stadg .Shiowa: $uffalo's Cancer-Death.Rate Exceeds Average " Bnffalo's lung cancer death . rate is reported tolbe 60 per cept Ligher tban,the nptional' average', In a U:S. Public Healt t Servicq', study on white men. Mortality f I g u r e s on the disease have "no bearthg•" on the disputed I relation between eig.rqtte msoki"~aad lua=, a~liS~n gg to a iButfalo •nareareb piysieiYn. = Dr. Morton, L. Levin, chief of the epidemiolbgy department at Itoswell Park Meznorlel. lestttute, pid Frid+w:, "A variation in mortality rates in different ~cities hqa no bp$ring on tlu fact that cigarette smoking ia cone of the maQor kmownicausative factors ini lung cancer."' Dr. Levin, who directs Roswelil •Park cigarette amoking-lung 'can. aer r;esearch was asked to eom, ment on an evaluation of the U.& report by Tobacco Institute Iac:. of New York City. WJdetYariitlon Noted . . :.. -. VThe Tobacco ' Institute /pointed alt that'lung cancer death ratea vary' widely among UiBA cities of compprable size and among cities In the same geographic location. Insti(ute flgures were based on the public health survey 'atnong 163 metropolitan areas in the country. ,' Buffalb, with a populattoni of 68Z,759, and i New York City, with JOURN,AL : Flint, MictniM July 27, 1962 , 7,7s1,964, both were listed with lung cancer mortality rates 60 pcr cent above the national averake: "There Is more than 1 one cause of, lung cancer," Dr. Le- rinl said. "There isn't any rea- son to etpect that hmg cancer mortality would be the saree In all i cities, and mortality rates have nothing, to do with the fact' ~ ~ M~given agent causes i Roswell! Park Memorial Insti- tute's studies on, cigarette sntok- ing', and lung' cancer, Dr. Levin 'said, show "ten times more lung I cancer in cargette smokers than in non-smokers."' These studies, the doctor said, were conducted in Buffalo and in rural areas of the state. Lung cancer incidence In rural areas appears "somewhat less" In non-cigarette smokers than in the city, according to Dr. Lev1n. Current research, by the Buffalo institute ia considering the rela• tlon of factors other than ciga• rette-smoking. to lung cancer. These factors inelude occupation . place of residence and pet^sonai habits. Researchers also are studying the effect of filtered and • non+ filtered 'cigarettes on cancers pro- duced in mice and! a possible link 'between, cighrettea and a variety of lung tumors developed in ant-. Hmsla; • Iqbacco Cancer menl a s rom un 8 In frequency while epidermoid Tobacco and H e a l t'h al:+oicancerr run 90 per cent above the cancers, believed to be associated printeda a recent study by the U.S! InationaU average in Shreveport, wA5ti1NG1UN (AP) - The Too- with outside influences, have de- bacco Institute, Inc., qpoting pri, dined in frequency.. vate studies and government fig- Both types were measured over tn•es; has added more fuel to the a 31-year period in~the Los Ange- fiery dispute over whether tobacco les i area by Dr. Doris L. Herman causes lung cancer. nd Margaret Crittenden. • In its monthly magazine To- ~ Fi ve San Francisco scientists bacco and Health, the lnstitute' reported their studies showed reported on the work of two Cali+ most lung cancers originate in the fornia research teams. outer areas of'the lungs. Thie pub. A Los Angeles team reportedly iication noted that the greatest por- found that adenocarcinomas, a in the main b'ronchi, and the type of cancer believed to be smallest amount would be In the glgnduler in origin, has incrcased outer areas of ` the lu= REGISTER IDes~ Moines, Iowa JC`ly 25' 1962 Study Raises Questions On Cancer-Snnpki.ng Tite_ *i " WASHIh1G1?O11T, D. C. UP'i-PTew studies by California re- search, teams raise questions about theories on the otuginsi and most prevalent types of' lung, cancer4 the Tobacco Insti- tute, Inc.,.has reported ~ pnother stridy by fi-v In its monthly publication, Ftancisco scientists, "Tobac- '` `Tobacco and Health," the co and' Health" reported'1 . inst'itute said a Los Angeles: found that most lstng cancers . team's findings 'showed that originate in the outer areas ' the type of lung,cancer that:of the lung, rather, than the bronchi. . has been rising in frequeney main ~is was in contrast• to '` is not the~ type generall~y a:s- sociated with inhaled sub- .many previous repoits, the. ~ stances, such as cigarette Publieation said, in that the smoke. . concentration of' inhaledl ma- `' The scientists reported that' terials should'_ be greatest_ in , epidermoid c a n c e r s, often t6e main bronchi and smallest , said to be associated with in the outer, peripheral areas,,., outside influences, had de- of the lungs. clined in frequency over a' The research report was t 31'-year period in the Los Angeles area written by Drs. L. H. Garland, ~ - R. L. Baier, W. Couldson+ :. Meanmehile; the propor- tion of adenoearcinomas, a type believed to be glandu- lar in origin, had increas4 the research team of Dr. ~ Doris L Herman and Mar- garet Crittenden, saidi . Aublic H e a I t h Service showing that lung cancer death!rates vary greatly from city to city. The government report showed;, for instance, that' deaths of whlte males in Netv Orleans, La.,, are double the national rate for lung cancer fatalities. H: H. Heald and R. L. Stein: La., and 70, per cent rnhrc ini Charle k . ;" s on . . _ . IM Lima, Ohio; pnd. Grrrn Hay, Wls;, were both 60 per ccnt below. the average for white mall-s while Siouv P'xllfi, & 1)., and Ogden, Utah„ were bolh 801 prr cr.nt be. low 1he nalinnd9 an~eraae for Won7• ine aeatn rate for males is 70; en. ,r . per cent higher In Charleston, S C : and 60 per cent higher i .,n New York City; Buffalo, N.Y.; Baltimore, Md., andi Mobile, A'lh. For wo de th f l