Show Lung Cancer Fear Says A University professor has sounded a hopeful note for persons fearing lung Lesions of the lung footprints of disease which often include lung cancer may not be as perilous as previously according to Walter J. professor and head of the College of Medicine's department of Burdette made the statements recently to the Utah State Medical He told the Utah physicians that in a recent study of 57 lung tumor patients from various geographical sections of the with similar only 11 turned out to be Eight additional tumors were or non cancerous in The remainder were suffering from bacterial or fungus The Utah professor is a member of the U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Committee studying the relationship between smoking and lung and is chairman of the American Cancer Society's Research Advisory HE TOLD of a simple using a which detects the very early changes that occur in lung more common in smokers and those with malignant lesions of the He stated that there are certain changes that occur in smokers' lungs which provide a for the development of These changes can be detected with the He added that these changes occasionally occur in but were seen most frequently in Burdette suggested that as a result of improvements in techniques of chest surgery in recent physicians might want to consider more frequent use of surgery as a as well as a therapeutic procedure in cases where diagnosis through other means is inconclusive in order to avoid the delay in treatment which may be OF the barely perceptible lesions found in early stages of the disease may actually be By the time they are large enough to diagnose using conventional they may be beyond successful basis for increasing the success for removal of malignant tumors is early Burdette He reported that the most prevalent small or lesion in Utah appears to be the fungus Tuberculosis is on the downgrade throughout the state as a and malignant cancer which is accounts for less than 20 per cent of what are considered to be early lung |