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...Donora, Pa. (pop. 13,000), which struck down 5,910 and killed 18 in October 1948. Others, doctors think, may have serious cumulative effects on human health-which will not show up for perhaps 20 or 30 years. Some may cause lung disease and consequent failure. Dr. John R. Heller, president of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, last week estimated that more than 15% of all cancers might be traced to environmental pollutants. Says Dr. Robert A. Kehoe of the University of Cincinnati: "The technology of our time has created a wealth of materials and made...
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Named this week to be overall head of the U.S.'s greatest complex of cancer research and treatment activities was Dr. John Roderick Heller, 55 (TIME Cover, July 27). After twelve years as director of the Federal Government's National Cancer Institute, Rod Heller will move July 1 to Manhattan as first president of a newly integrated Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In effect he succeeds the late great Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads (TIME, Aug. 24), but with unified-command responsibility: Dr. Rhoads's research job, as director of Sloan-Kettering Institute, has already been filled...
...Cancer of the stomach used to kill more U.S. men than cancer at any other site, but has now declined so sharply that surgeons in some areas cannot find enough cases for comparative research. Reason for the drop (40% to 50%), Director John R. Heller of the National Cancer Institute (TIME cover, July 27) told Congress, is unknown. And it is more than offset by the increase in lung cancer...
...HELLER Airline Captain Flourtown...