2.3 cubic feet. Consists of correspondence, papers, lectures, and photographs, particularly pertaining to the topics of lung cancer and thoracic service.

4.3 cubic feet. Correspondence, reprints, speeches, meeting files, subject files, films, videotapes regarding cryosurgery, mediatinoscopy, tobacco studies, and instrument brochures. Contains information relating to the cryosurgical techniques pioneered in the mid 1960s by William G. Cahan. Publicity surrounding Dr. Cahan's surgical procedures led to his receiving numerous letters containing pleas for assistance from people afflicted with various ailments.