Medicine: Continuing Fight

Doctors are still far from being able to say what causes cancer, but they suspect many things. Last week, for the first time, the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Public Health Service's National Cancer Institute got together for a national cancer conference. For three days some 400 experts talked things over in Memphis' Hotel Peabody, where, between sessions, they chatted, smoked, and watched the tamed wild ducks swimming in the lobby fountain.

Vitamins & Smoke. Diet may be "an important predisposing cause" of cancer of the mouth, said the University of Southern...

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