The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-05-10, Page 11Cancer increase among non smokers
BY SUSAN WHITE
Industrial cancers are
on the increase and room with no windows or
government and industry ventilation system.
need to be pressured to "After a few months
improve working con- she was short of breath
ditions and health every day, the doctor
standards, the head of the noted.
.pulmonary disease unit After -.three years, -ung
at St. Joseph's Hospital in cancer was diagnosed
London told the annual and the woman did not
meeting of the Huron live three months.
Perth Lung Association "We can expect to see
in Stratford last Wed- more of this 'in the, near
nsday. future," the doctor told
Dr. Thomas E. Wood Lung Association
called the increase he volunteers, and he added
sees in lung cancer that the cancer causing
among non-smokers agents are sometimes
"particularly disturbing" "things we never thought
and said it's related to of five years ago."
lacquers, chemicals and
gases in the work place TIGHTER STANDARDS
and to conditions on Lung Associations
farms. must call for tighter
It's almost impossible standards in the work
to avoid exposure to place, Dr. Wood said,
cancer causing sub- citing a plastics factory
stances in many in. with a good ventilation
'dustries, Dr. Wood said. system, meeting existing
"Conditions are government regulations
dreadful and regulations that call for no more than
totally inadequate," he four parts per million of
claimed. toxic substances in the working conditions or
He cited a patient of his plant's air. - persuading the patient to
who worked for several "But medical literature quit his- job is the only
years spraying lacquer says damage begins
on furniture in a 10 x 12 when you can smell (the
fumes) and anyone
walking into the factory
smells them," he said.
Although the plant is
meeting government
regulations, everyone
working- there is exposed
to potentially dangerous
fumes and faces per-
manent lung damage, the
•docto} explained. He
predicted that industrial
lung caner will be a
major health problem in
20 years.
Farmers too face
conditions that cause
lung disease, including
"farmer's lung" from
mold on hay which can
lead to permanent lung
scarring with continued
exposure.
Dr. Wood described
another patient who
worked in a large turkey
barn and experienced
shortness of breath and
wheezing after four or
five hours in the barn.
Either improving
Bill Kinahan of Lucknow, centre, was named president of 'the Huron Perth
Lung Association at the group's annual meeting in Stratford last week. He
succeeds May Dodds of Stratford, left. Beside Mr. Kinahan is Edith Fisher
of Mitchell, the new first vice-president and Beryl Dunsmore of Harmony,
right, is the Lung Association's executive director. (Expositor photo)
way to ' prevent work
related lung disease the
doctor said.
"And it's very hard to
get people to stop work,"
he said.
For example the
woman who developed
lung - cancer from -her
work spraying lacquer'
was putting two children
through university and
needed the job, Dr. Wood
explained.
VIRULENT BRAND
He called cancer
associated with industry'
"an even more virulent
kind than that associated
with, smoking." The
average survival time
after diagnosis is six
months.
Usually there's no
surgery possible and
cancer drugs and
radiotherapy can't
prolong life much more
than • a year after
diagnosis.
Cancer of the lung is on
the most rapid 'increase
in Dr. Wood's practice,
while the general pattern
of other lung disease is
constant.
The doctor, who also
teaches medical
students, says asthma,
chronic bronchitis and
emphysema patients
make up the rest of his
practise. •
Asthma patients have a
much greater -2 -hope of
keeping their condition
under control now than 10
or 20 years ago, Dr. Wood
said. Asthmatics tend to
be richer- and more in-
telligent than the general
population and often have
a family history of the
disease or of allergies.
Asthma usually shows
up before age 14 but Dr.
Wood said he's had
patients develop it as late
as age 75. Very few asth-
matics he sees are severe
enough to be admitted to
hospital; the doctor said,
while five years ago he
admitted at least one a
week.
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He called chronic
bronchitis "a disease of
cough and spit", usually
associated with cigarette
smokers, many of whom
start smoking young.
Emphysema, too, is
usually a disease of
smokers, Dr. Wood said:
A cold causes an em-
physema sufferer "great
distress" and can lead to
respiratory failure.
"I see one regularly
about every two weeks
and they do very, very
badly...Eventually
there's not much we can
do medically," he told the
group.
NEW PRESIDENT
The annual meeting
elected William Kinahan
of Lucknow the
association's new
president. He succeeds
May Dodds of Stratford.
Although the - –Lung
Association's Christmas
Seal Fund raised
$46,045.74 in 1979, up
about one per cent frorri
last year, bequests and
memorials were down
somewhat, making the
total income $51,642.52 as
opposed to $54,240.69 in
1976.
Expenses in 1979 in-
GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1979—PAGE 11
eluded grants to the
provincial and national
lung associations,
health education and stop
smoking campaigns,
programs for asthmatic
children and ;ad-
ministration, totalling
$43,310.90, up from
$41,573.64 in 1978.
Head table guests in-
cluded Perth P.C. can-
didate Bill Jarvis, Huron
Warden Jolty Tinney and
Mrs. Tinney, and
representatives from
Perth County Council and
the city of Stratford.
Cancer car in Huron in May
The Industrial Cancer
Education Service of'the
Ontario Division of the
Canadian Cancer Society
is one of the strongest
arms of cancer education
and information in
Ontario. It takes its
educational program to
the province's industries
and aims at breaking
down fears and
misconceptions about
cancer and motivating
workers to approach
their family doctor.
The white car with
navy-blue lettering and
its Canadian Cancer
Society registered nurse
behind the wheel will be
visiting Huron County
during May and June
1979. The nurse will give
an informative presen-
tation about cancer
through a film and a brief
talk and by handing out
literature.
Private interviews for
those that desire them
may be arranged at the
place of work after the
film showing.
Last year, the
Industrial Cancer
Education Service's six
registered nurses located
throughout the province
visited 410 firms, talked
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