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Show p 0? n The Daily Heraid Friday, October Be aware cancer in October By BETH mistake many people mjike is to deny that they or loved oijes will get the disease or, if they h;jve early warning signs, deny that it might be cancer until there is;no doubt that it definitely is cancer. At this point, it is much more difficult to cure. Unlike most diseases of the heart and blood vessels, cancer is not uncommon in children and young adults. Fortunately many of those cancers such as leukemias and lymphomas have a fairly high cure rate. Some are as high as 90 per- - r A Public Healthline cent or higher. Tragically, some are not curable as we saw this past week with the passing of the old Salt Lake resident Wendy Bennion, who fought so valiantly 20-ye- ar against Ewings Sarcoma bone cancer for five years. The majority of cancers, however, appear after age 40 and there are some fairly good screening tests to check for some of the more common types. Breast cancer is very common in women and. with the help of mammography, can be detected sometimes when it is as small as of an inch in diameter. examinaAlthough tion and professional examinations are also very important, discovery by this method is more difficult when the cancer is small. Occasionally even though they can still be cancerous, suspicious breast lumps do not appear to be cancer on mammography. " It is very important to see a physician about unusual lumps even when mammography may be read as normal. Death from cervical cancer of the uterus is now quite low but the reason is because the annual pap smear can detect this cancer at a very early, curable stage. A funding grar: from the national Centers for Disease Control will provide free pap smears, mam- mography for all women over age 50 who have not been receiving examinations annual these because of limited income. To make an appointment to have public health these provided by nurse, call Another very common cause of death in both men and v. .mien is colon and rectal cancer. It is often embarrassing for a person to discuss a change in bowel habits or a sign of rectal bleeding. Too often they try to explain it away without going promptly to the doctor to hae visual and examinations of the inside of the color and rectum. Small precancerous and cancerous tumors can easily be cured with surgery. After age 40 an annual check for hidden, microscopic amounts of blood in the stool will also help the doctor know if further tests should be done. Prostate cancer is one of the most common causes of canrer death in men and some will argue that you shouldn't worry about it because it won't kill you until you're about 80 years old anyway. Again the truth is that this cancer is common and deadly in men in their 50s and 60s who with some will early detection and treatment more have many healthy years of life left. The annual rectal exam and a periodic prostate specific with antigen (PSA) test will help treatment. and detection early 370-873- Dr. of the ment Miner City-Coun- ty director Health Depart- is executive of Utah County. h'jy L & ff W my I stubborn cases in sub-Sahar- Africa that are proving the toughest to kill. "Most of the villages that we're dealing with now are the most difficult villages, and that's why they're the last ones." said Dr. Donald Hopkins, who heads the Global 2000 program at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Its goal has been to rid the world of Guinea worm infections by the end of the year. The microscopic parasites that live in stagnant water are gulped down by playful children, thirsty AP Photo Victims of the Guinea worm disease wait for treat- ment by Ivorian Public Health workers in Missi- dougou, central Ivory Coast, in July. Although farmers, washing women. After they grow and mate, the males quickly die. The female worms then spend a year boring their way out toward the skin, growing all the while often to as long as 36 inches and the thickness of spaghetti. The worms usually head for the lowest part of the body, generally around the ankle. When the host steps in water, the worm breaks through the surface of the skin and lays its eggs into the water, starting the cycle over. It is common in West African villages to see people with cloth wrapped around their ankles, a Guinea worm has nearly been eradicated, the Africa, are remaining 100,000 cases in the most difficult. n e sign of the disease. worm's boring often causes tell-tal- A a painful infection that leaves the host bedridden, but nothing can be done until it surfaces through the skin. That can take months. The worms can kill if they bore into the spinal cord or heart, but that is rare. Occasionally, a worm passes through a joint, causing crippling scar tissue. Hopkins estimates there will be fewer than 00.000 cases of Guinea worm by the end of the year. But it does not look like the d last cases, of which are in southern Sudan, will be licked for at least another year. one-thir- Kim L. O'Neill. PhD. an associate professor of microbiology at BYU and an expert on breast cancer research. O'Neill will be joined by Richard C. Brown. MD. ;:idiution oncologist: Val D. Dunn. MD. radiologist: Dayleen Felt, breast cancer survivor: Lee M. Peterson. MD. surgeon: Roger Sheffield. MD. surgeon: Brian P. Tudor. MD. oncologist: and Marge Whitman, oncoloav nurse and cancer Poorly trained and underpaid health workers are struggling with a lack of medical supplies and against an abundance of superstition that undermines education efforts. In a meeting with the village's chiefs and the lone public health nurse. Dr. Henri Boualou. an epidemiologist who heads Ivory Coast's Guinea worm eradication program, bemoans a doubling of the number of cases in Gbonbogo to 65 in six months. "I don't understand you people." he tells them. "You say people use the pumps and the fillers, but if you look at the figures, the The seminar will be held ice on Oct. 7. The first presentation will be from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at American Fork Hospital in the education center and the second presentation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at UVRMC in the Clark Auditorium. Both breast cancer seminars are free to the public. For more information, call tw 37I-7S4- hope it's not too late to write about the lawsuit involving the woman who spilled McDonald's coffee on her lap and sued for $2.9 million. Vni should have stuck to your guns when you said. "The once-nobl- e legal profession has sunk to a new low." Instead, you printed that g letter from S. Reed Morgan, the woman's lawyer, saying her case should be used to show how well the jury system works. U.doney. The plaintiff w as 81 years old. I say she was a malingering old biddy who pumped up her alleged injuries to get more moi.ey. Spending eight days in the hospital was her lawyer's way of creating a situation to make her case appear legit. Third degree burns my eye! There are plenty of unethical doctors who will testify to anything as long as they get a fat fee. Nothing was said about the woman riding in her grandson's sports car or how fast he was going. In the accounts of the case I read, it said there was no place to put the coffee cup. so she placed it between her legs. What kind of an idiot does that in a spoils car? Where is the common sense here? And as for the 700 reported claims of burn injuries from coffee, where is the reality behind this? When you make coffee at home, the temperature of the fresh cup is lower than that. Do you then fill your cup and go tearing around in a sports car. for heaven's sake? And those punitive damages! That jury should wake up and smell the coffee. The publicity may stop the company from serving hot coffee, but punitive damages won't I deter anyone. The reality is that the lawyers just get big. fat fees. The money for those damages will be passed along to the customers of McDonald's. Far from being a victory for the consumer, this case inerelv encouraces unethical. self-servin- 180-degr- Ann 3fv Landers greedy lawyers and their greeds clients to continue to perpetrate such frauds on gullible juries. I'll bet the jury only saw an old. grandmotherly looking woman who had been injured. Poor old Grannie, let's give her some money. It adds to the continuing theme that people are no longer held accountable for their contribution to their ow n injuries. It is the victim mentality run amok. It's high time the juries took a healthy dose of reality and sent these plaintiffs packing. Not only that, but we all should express our outrage at the continued abuses of Still Angry in the legal system. Atlanta Dear Atlanta: You should have warned me to put on asbestos gloves. Your letter was a real sizzler. Keep reading for more on the same subject: Dear Ann: I just read where a woman is suing a McDonald's in Tipp City. Ohio, because the water in her tea w as too hot. It seems the water spilled as sIk opened the plastic lid to dunk the tea bag. The woman, in her 70s. claims she received third degree burns requiring extensive hospitalization and skin grafts and that she was permanently disfigured. Her lawsuit seeks damages in excess of S200.000. not including punitive damages. Seems to me these lawsuits are a contagious. Sounds as if the bag lady may have been inspired to sue after she read about the coffee lady's success in collecting a Mad in Michigan tidy sum. So, dear readers, what should we do? Take Shakespeare's advice and kill all the lawyers? I vote no. I'd lose too many good friends. LOOKS... SALON fipw coi oon. Reg. $35 FEATURING UTAH VALLEY'S FINEST DESIGN TEAM 373-690- 6 1450 N. 155 W. Provo, I 1 By JEANE DIXON For Oct. 7 ARIKS (March 2 April This weekend, spruce up your immediate surroundings. A more prestigious and responsible position could soon Iv unit's. 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In parts or Nigeria, people actually worship) ed a god of smallpox and acemes were considered sacrilege. "'Some vaccinators were chased out of villages by people with machetes. Now. that's serious sorcery." Hopkins said. Health officials faced the same problem recently in Zaire, where many people refused to believe that the deadly Ebola outbreak w as anything more than a bad spell cast by an angry diamond thief. "But people are rational and if y ou continue to talk w ith them and work with them and their neighbors, they w ill finally get it." said Hopkins. And in a heartening turn, the toothless old woman who was scrubbing the w ooden bow with a filter went on to slap a new filter over the mouth of the bow and strain some pond water before offering up a safe drink. "I do it all the time now." said Kone Tchiorothcha. who said she was 60 or 70 years old. "Since I saw the Great Filter. know that's what fiehis the sorcerer." ' Free breast cancer seminar To help increase the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. American Fork Hospital and Utah Valley Regional Medical Center are sponsoring Veast cancer seminars. These free presentations will feature a panel of experts who'll share information about breast cancer prevention and treatment including a question and answer period. The seminars will feature about talking er self-brea- st a numbers hae doubled. How do sou explain it?" The men stare at the ground and shrug their shoulders. An elderly woman provides part of the answer, demonstrating how she uses a in Ion water filter the sie of a handkerchief to scrub out a bow as she chatters on about how witchcraft causes Guinea worms. "It's frustrating in the sense that it's up to them to tell their children what to do. but they keep N GBONGOGO, Ivory Coast The razor is rusty and the needle is old, but those are the only tools the nurse has to work with as he slowly digs into the young man's leg and begins to pull. And pull and pull at the long, white worm. When the head of the parasite finally pops out, it is doused in alcohol and cursed for the misery it brings. "That hurt just a little bit," says a grimacing Kone Moussa, one of five dozen people in this West African village who are bedridden and lethargic from Guinea worms. "From now on I promise to drink pump water." But chances are Moussa, 24, will not confine himself to water from the new deep-watpump installed in his village in the heart of Ivory Coast. Nor is he likely to use the water filters donated by former President Carter to strain out the worm larvae. Many people still drink contaminated ground water despite being warned about the worms. Efforts to eradicate Guinea worm have made enormous inroads, bringing the number of cases worldwide down from 3.5 million in 1986 to fewer than 160,000 last year. It is those last one-eigh- th breast examinations and DUFF-BROW- Associated Press Writer October is Cancer Awareness Month and this group of diseases called "cancer" is second only to diseases of the heart and blood vessels as a leading cause of death here in Utah County and throughout the nation. Although cancer is so often thought of as an automatic agonizing death sentence, the truth is most cancers are very curable if discovered early. Perhaps the Dr. Joseph X. Miner 1995 uperstition slows Africa's war on Guinea worm of biggest 6S OCT. 7,14, 21 11A.M. Provo Store Only cycoycDn' Provo 1700 Utah 84604 373-554- 2 N. :: : ccake& CANDY' State |