The Increasing Menace of Bronchogenic Cancer

Our plain-English summary of The Increasing Menace of Bronchogenic Cancer (1966).

The study

• Published: 1966
• Type of article: Journal article
• Our copy: from Johns-Manville's own medical library. The article is still under copyright, so we describe it here rather than post it.

In plain English

This record contains only a fragment of an article titled "The Increasing Menace of Bronchogenic Cancer." The scanned pages hold the last few lines of the article, its reference list, an advertisement, and two short unrelated items about new drugs and cancer research. The article's methods, the people or cases it looked at, and most of its findings are missing, so these pages do not show what kind of article it was. One sentence just before the conclusion gave a figure of 30 per cent for people whose lesions were in the hilar area (near the root of the lung) and 70 per cent for people with peripheral lesions. The surviving text does not say what these percentages measured or where they came from. In the closing paragraph, the author concluded that bronchogenic cancer poses an increasing menace, that its prognosis is poor, and that the disease is almost always preventable. The author called for a stronger campaign against the harmful effects of cigarette smoking. Asbestos is not mentioned anywhere in the surviving text.

We wrote this plain-English summary from the full article with the help of AI, and a second AI model checked each sentence against the article. It is not the authors' wording; the abstract and the article are their own account.

What the study did and found

• Main results:
  • Among those whose lesions were located in the hilar area, the figure given was 30 per cent. The surviving fragment does not say what this percentage measured or whether it is the author's own data.
  • Among those with peripheral lesions, the figure given was 70 per cent. Again, the fragment does not say what was measured or where the figure came from.
• The authors' conclusion: The author concluded that bronchogenic cancer poses an increasing menace. The author stated that since the prognosis is poor and the disease is almost always preventable, the campaign against the harmful effects of cigarette smoking should be strengthened.

Topics

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Bronchogenic Carcinoma, Prognosis.

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