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The article discusses how science and industry joined hands to fight occupational cancer which has become one of the major causes of deaths in the U.S. It states that Occupational cancer Committee of the U.S. plans to conduct survey on cancer patients, distribute leaflets to create awareness and conduct interviews with the patients to help them. It also mentions many suspected cancer causing agents which include ultraviolet rays, inorganic chemicals and processed mineral oils.

The article focuses on developments in cancer research, as discussed at the Fourth National Cancer Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in September 1960. A blue-ribbon panel of cancer experts at the conference agreed that early diagnosis helps in saving half of all cancer patients. According to Milton T. Edgerton, associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, statistical evidence indicates that solar radiation is the main cause of skin cancer.