Cancer of the Lung

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Abstract
In a recent issue of the British Medical Journal Smithers,1 radiotherapist to the Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, expresses concern about the "alarm" that may be created among the general public by undue publicity accorded to recent statistical research on carcinoma of the lung. That Smithers is not alone in his concern is evident from recent correspondence2 , 3 in the same journal that followed the comprehensive study of Doll and Hill4 earlier in the year. Smithers contends, and these are also the basic arguments of other correspondents, that, although one can guess at the nature of some of the . . .