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Detection by Use of Electrical Skin Resistance Method

JAMES F. FRIES; CURT P. RICHTER, PhD

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(5):624-634.

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The increasing incidence, grave prognosis, and difficulty of early diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma have received a great deal of attention in the recent literature. It has been pointed out that lung cancer is now the most common malignancy in males, that "five-year cures" are attained with only 5%10% of the cases, and that diagnosis is not made until 3-12 months after the onset of symptoms, on the average.¹ The outlook has been alternately characterized as discouraging and as urgent. The need for new and improved methods of diagnosis has been stressed by many authors.^1-3

Thousands of routine tests made in the Skin Resistance Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins Hospital over the last 20 years have revealed striking patterns in a number of patients with thoracic tumors, particularly bronchogenic carcinoma. These observations suggested the present study, which is a systematic evaluation of the electrical skin resistance method in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

Footnotes
Received for publication May 16, 1963; accepted June 7.

Senior Medical Student, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (J. F. Fries); Professor Emeritus of Psychobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Dr. Richter).

Psychobiological Laboratory, Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Supported by grants from the American Cancer Society (1949-1950) and more recently from the National Science Foundation and the US Public Health Service (1961-1962).

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