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u.bious, Specialist Says HOSCOW'- M'- A Hungarian, righ't'side lAbe, and'he addedi cancer specialist said Wednesday that his findings cast doubt on~ the theory that heavy cigarette sorokimg is the major cause of Lmg cancer: ~ : Dr. Joseph Balo told the eight8 Internatioa!al Cancer Congress I that of 300 lung cancer cases he e=amined, themajoritye were :lo; cated on the rigbt afda -The implication was that , if I cigarette smoke were a- major' oause, the lung cancers w o'u 1 d' generally have been eveajq dii,s- tributed on right and left'sides- since inhaled smoke enters bothi lungs: A top U.S. cancer mrgeon cluReoged the, validity of hii a ffadings. "Phere, Es also a dit- fereaee between litcidenceof eancer between the right a.n d .left.breast:.of .women,"'he said. "We donltltuow why.'•' 'Tie dfBereaee, esisttng ta cancer oeeurrenee , in the rigE!t' aad left sidee aaanol be as- crdbed oNyy to tbee effeetss otI ®Nde g." , - . He theorized that most of the "oentr'al" cancers were caused by a chronic pressure on the lungs from other organs in the chest areas. .. .. He said I•'peripheral'.' I a in q cancers might result from previ- ous bouts of tuberculosis or other maladies causing,areas of dead- ened tissue in the lungs. The U. S. surgeon declared it would be rare: indeed, for pres- of another organ to cause ~ cancer. The U.S. Public Health Service and the American Cancer Society hold that cigarette smoking is M!e majqr cause of lung cancer, and Brttain's Royal College of Ph,vsicians calls it "an impor- tant cause." ' Ih. Balo said be bad exam- ined a, series of 30o cases of - lung' cancer and found 9a per. cent of, them were "tentrally located?' - at or near where the two main offshoots from the windpipe enter eitherth'e right or left' lobes of the lungs. The rest: he said, occurred in !he periph'eryy or outermost nreas ef' eith'er !obe. Of lhe"central" enes,,he said Bo per',Crnt. were found in the. NEW YORK WpRLB-TE'IEGRAM AND SUN New York, Nev York July 26, 1962 African MD Links to saiif; explaining that Asians MOSCOW, July 26-The oddl and Europeans are affected., distribution of'a kind of tumor' "With a few exceptions,"TDr. among children in a mosquito Wright declared, "the tumor _b'eltof tropical Africa~suppontsa does notoecur'north of..a line the theory that at least some joining Northern Kenya with human cancers are caused' by Northern Nigerda. It does not vituses„it was reported today;. occur in South, Africa and' is The cancer in,Africa occma,rare In the Rhodes'tas:" almost exclusively in a tiroad` : - belt cutting, across the tropics, fromtheeast.to.thewest.coasti . of the continer,t-the very tlelt' that is the haunt of certain mosquitos, and other inse•ts ralled "tabonids", a Uganda doctor reported to the eigheh' international congresa now in, 'session here. IDr: D. H., Wright of Kani pala said he belieres the dis- ease is caused by sonte still unidentified' virus which may' he carried byy insects.inthe~ • irea. - Hhe described the tumor as- a.lymphoma, a cancerous pro-~ ,eaa involving the lymph s,vs- Irri It's a disease found most often in children 3 to 6years Years old. ., ]n~most..~irtims, the.cancer - primaril,vafifectsttiejaw,.but ,- aliaoo mayaffeetthey kidiiey,, adi'enal, glands, liver,.ovaries; ~ - , irsticlec, thyroid and part of.thw abdomen. . . . , "The tumor isnatronfine.l in ,~fhicau childirn;" IF.r:.dne,' . NATIOAIY#I' . 0'RSE:RVER July 23, 19~2 ~ • } , can.Cancersociety;.saycigarecsmok+ng I A7neric:utaud ris:~ta;t sricntisLsw•ill RuJs'1~n ~`~1E~1L1S1-sts a ntaji and probably the major I ptr~h over the lung cancer i_,sue and oi! c°a- Ca l culprit in lung cancer. !this week during,the Eighth Internatiriirrl Not so, claim,the Soviets. ProfL Lenn ~Cancer Congress meeting 1n Mos u'..: Dl.~pu} p' C1'gra~.p~ Shahad said last week that Soviet reF'ive thousand scientists from more !h ut _ uSr c; a. ` searchers had concluded that a man cotdd 70 nations will attend, ~ smoke heavily fOr 50 years without gc't- But betore lt started, the American:, ting cancer. Scientists, he said, had cot:.r found a Russian statentent they hope tu 11~ n L C ~n an~'.~~ to the conclusion that smoking was prnn- agree with. Said Prof. Nikoli3ilN. Blokhin, ~ 1n 1~ LQI ably not the major cause of lung cancv,r preydent of-the So'iet Academy of'Medi'- after studying a cancer-prodVlcing agcn', cal, Sciences: "We are now very close to Russians and Americans are always caIIed 3.4-bettzop,yrene, found in tobacco. %, liere,the cancer'problem can be excluded. finding things to disagree about,, whether it's Berlin, or the bomb. Last week they , Steady' smoking for half a centum,• ard sol~,ctl-" apparently, added' a new area of dispute would cause the intake of only a frw -lung cancer. tnilligrams of 3.4-benzopyrene, which was comparable to the quantitics' a pcrwni Many American scientists, including would breathe fromicity smog and exha,.!s!, the Public Heath Serviee and the; Ameni- fumes, he said.