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3. The NCI la dolug a retrospective atudy of lun^ cancer aad emokla^ hab- 

 its Id women. 



k. Dr. Wynder, la coHaboratlon vith a etatlsticiaa at the Hational la- 

 BtltutoB of Health, Is reported preparing a paper from Wynder'e material relat- 

 ing to lung cancer etatietlcB In vciaen. (This n^y be one of the paper* Dr. 

 Wynder vlll present In April.) 



5. The Veterans Administration study Is continuing. 



6. Tvo govemnieat health statletlclons axe studying old VA records vlth 

 regard to influenia, gas exposure and other respiratory conditions of men In 

 World War I. This study vlll be coEpared with the VA study. 



7. The NCI Is considering a retrospective study that also vould make use 

 of the Census Bureau survey. T-ls would replace the previously proposed study 

 of the relatlorisblp of smoking to mortality among wccen eaployed by the govern- 

 ment and covered by federal employe Insurance. The latter plan has been dropped, 

 at least for the present. 



Other factors of public relations Interest to TIRC are Dr. Little's forth- 

 COTiing report (in May) on the progress and accoaplishcests of the research pro- 

 grajn, the talks he will give at tiree medical meetings and the editorial he has 

 written for CA^CSR KESZARCE, official publication of the Amerlcaji Association 

 for Cancer Research. 



Dr. Little will speak March 5 before the Wayne County Medical Society in 

 Detroit. On June 5 be vlll present a paper at a synposlum on "Cancer of the 

 Lung" at the Third Rational Cancer Conference in Detroit. On June 7 he vlll 

 speak at a syapcslum on "The Present Concept of Bronchogenic Carcinona" at the 

 annual meeting of the Aaerican College of Chest Physicians in Chicago. 



The Third National Cancer Conference Is co-sponsored by the Aaerlcaa Can- 

 cer Society and the National Cancer Institute. The planning ccwniittee for the 

 meeting has s'jggested to Dr. Little that he speak on "Etiology and Lung Can- 

 cer -- Tobacco" and also has asked him to participate In a panel discussion on 

 etiology. 



The editorial Dr. Little has vrltten and the talks he Is to give vlU in- 

 crease scientific appreciation of the research program and will be of interest 

 to science reporters In their norMil coverage of such occurrences. 



Cancer Month 



April has been designated "Cancer Month" and during the next fev months 

 the American Cancer Society vlll conduct an active campaign to achieve Its goal 

 of $26,000,000. The build-up has been apparent in recent weeks: 



1. An article on I'oog cancer and smoking by Dr. Charles Cameron, the 

 ACS' medical and scientific director, appeared in the January issue of THE 

 ATLANTIC. Virtually the entire text was word for word from his report of 1953- 

 195'^. The ACS wrote a news release on the article which was released to local 

 newspapers by various ACS divisions. 



