The Tobacco Reference Guide by David Moyer

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by David Moyer, MD.

Chapter 7 Lung cancer

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"Primary malignant neoplasms of the lung are among the rarest forms of disease."

From Primary Malignancies, I. Adler, 1912 (reported by Richard Hurt, M.D.)

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Lung cancer was considered so rare that it was not listed as a cause of death in the

International Classification of Disease system until 1930.

Seminars in Oncology, August 1990, p. 407

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In 1921, Dr. Moses Barron of the University of Minnesota noted that there were eight

cases of lung cancer treated at the university in the previous year, compared to a total

of only four cases in the previous two decades since the turn of the century.

They Satisfy, p. 163

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"Before 1930 lung cancer was a rare disease not listed on the International

Classification of Disease system in the United States. However, by the end of the

1930's a rapidly increasing lung cancer death rate among males had been noted by

several scientists, including Dr. Harold Diehl and cancer surgeon Dr. Alton Ochsner of

Tulane University. Dr. Ochsner recalled being aroused from his bed as a third-year

medical student to witness a rare medical event that, according to his professors, he

would probably not see again in his lifetime - an autopsy of a man who died of lung

cancer. As a young cancer surgeon, he saw six lung cancer patients in a single year

and concluded that an epidemic of lung cancer must be under way. All these patients

were male, and all had a history of heavy cigarette smoking. This observation was

among the first to link cigarette smoking and the new U.S. epidemic of lung cancer."

Changes in Cigarette-Related Disease Risks, p. iii

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