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Carcinoma of the bronchus 60 years later

¹ Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
² Department of Thoracic Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, London, UK

Correspondence to:
Dr G A Silvestri, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Suite 812, P O Box 250623, Charleston, SC 29425, USA; silvestri@musc.edu

Accepted 9 October 2006

Keywords: lung cancer

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The subject of malignant disease of the lung, particularly bronchogenic carcinoma, appears to be a suitable one for such an occasion as this for many reasons. It is a condition of considerable importance owing to its increasing incidence; it clearly illustrates the advance in diagnosis and treatment in chest disease obtained during the last 20 years. It affords, in all its various aspects, opportunities to all sections of this association for study, and, lastly, it is a subject which has always been of considerable interest to me personally (excerpt from A Tudor Edwards).¹

Above the readers of today’s Thorax will find the introduction to the first article ever published in this journal. The article was written by A Tudor Edwards and is based upon his presidential address to the association for the study of diseases of the chest on 27 July 1945. Despite the fact that this address was . . . [Full text of this article]