Show 1 6A Standard-Examine- Thursday Nov 22 1990 r Medicine Cancer 3 a of skin studied Genetics examined Krvght-Ridde- ( r Newspaper MIAMI — As much as 40 percent of the population could be genetically predisposed to getting skin cancer a University of Miami study says The study which appears in this month’s Journal of Investigative Dermatology offers an explanation about why some people get skin cancer and others don’t — even when they receive the same exposure to the sun “We’ve always wondered If you take a group of people with equal sun exposure some develop a lot of wrinkling but they never develop skin cancer” said Dr J Richard Taylor the principal researcher and a professor at the university’s School of Medicine “If the only reason you develop skin cancer is because of exposure everyone should develop skin cancer” About 40 percent of the normal healthy volunteers in the month-lon- g experiment were found to be susceptible to skin cancer Because they were selected from Miami’s general population that same percentage may apply to all healthy people Taylor said Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers with about 600000 cases in this country every year Miami researchers set out to find if another factor is involved Using 22 healthy volunteers and 12 people who previously suffered basal or squamous cell cancers the most common skin cancers researchers exposed a small area of the volunteers’ buttocks to a beam of ultraviolet light This destroyed a section of epithelial tissue known as Lan-gerha- ns STORE HOURS: & HOTPOINT tc 8 P71 9 AM a AM to 6 PM SATURDAY 9 FINANCING AVAILABLE -- 30 Bays interest free OAC FREE DELIUERY--h JENN-AI- Oer Normal BeBvery Area BUILT-I- N R DISHWASHER 30-Inc- VMS- $ Double sound insulation Rinse & hold ommi cleaning Reg $309 Reg t Self feature WffiCTOSlKET KSTAUJITION h RANGE 3 wash and 2 dry cycles $440 3S& DELUXE MICROWAVE DNCB or then was applied to the area Because the chemical causes allergic reactions similar to poison ivy Taylor and his team could determine from the response if the person was susceptible to skin cancer light-expos- R ummv mn Gmmnm cells which are the skin’s immune system dinitro-chloroben-ze- & PR! MON TUES-TKU- ne ed Researchers examine differences 4t£F9EaAFTfJI'f' Ajflh11 Countersaver® e Reg Mode! RVM 120H $309 oven installs over your present cooktop Gives your kitchen a custom look! Chicago Tribune DALLAS — After decades studying heart disease in men micro-wav- mwji of re- searchers have only recently begun to examine theories about why women have higher death rates from heart attacks and react differently to treatment than P J TggmL men Some early findings announced last week suggest that much of what scientists thought they knew is wrong And some of the rest such as the benefits of estrogen replacement therapy in menopause hasn’t yet been scientifically established and may be overstated by many physicians Heart disease is well documented as a scourge of males It begins stalking them in their 50s and is the No cause of death in men But even though women generally avoid it until their late 60s heart disease in the end is an equal opportunity killer The American Heart Association started looking at the issue a few years ago under the presidency of Dr Bemadine Healy who subsequently was nominated by President Bush to become director of the National Institutes of Health which oversees most federal funding of biomedical research Because women as a group are older when they have heart attacks than are men researchers have assumed that age differences played a role in the higher mortality rate of women That may be a mistake A new study of nearly 600 women and more than 2700 men reported by Dr Richard Becker of the University of Massachusetts found that age differences don’t explain the higher death rate among women Although men and women in Becker’s study received comparag ble care including therapy in the early hours of their attacks six weeks later 9 percent of the women had died compared to 4 percent of the men And those mortality differences persisted at one year after initial attacks when 12 percent of the women had died compared to 6 percent of the men M Diagonal 25-Inc- h STEREO COLOR TV heart-protecti- Fine furniture stereo TV Remarkably low price Reg $679 f 1 & rt SG2516TR ' w-- (WMp i I VI r Yj V p ujh 1 VlSW ' f ff f ( j- t -H "3 Y Ji (ivtui I -- 1 j 1 - t P rf' ( Ji r i I 4 f JETCLEAfT NEW M02EL WASHERS iiM in K 4 i iiii ( ( W O DEPENDABLE REFRIGERATORS DISHWASHERS YEAH 2000 WARRANTY (ktk tor DUlb) dot-bustin- t 31” a ‘SERVING ALL OF YOUR 4 TV OGDEN AND APPLIANCE NEEDS' I & Washington o 334-888- 3 vrsA mmmm Jj |