Show 7f4 11LEcontinued : 01992' ters Medical Center in New Brunswick NJ Last September Dr Lewis Camphors Soup Company (t7f " 1 4e -- elf4 1 - IV Ff 11 (Fs 4 it et the - or 1111° - ga‘11 - 0 0 0 1 Chicke I °ode' vi1 ' per- formed video surgeries for a biopsy of a diseased lung and for the removal of a lobe of a cancerous lung "It's like looking for a penny under a subway grating" Lewis says of video surgery "You stick your instruments and TV camera between the ribs using the TV image to guide them There is no need to break the ribs" He points out that with this method a surgeon can remove an accumulation of fluid from the chest or from around the heart of a patient "I've had calls from heart surgeons who are interested in this procedure" Lewis adds Prostate gland The video laparoscope has been used in the removal of cancerous prostate glands Again this procedure saves the patient pain and recovery time both while in the hospital and while convalescing at home Dr R Ernest Soso a urologitt at New York Hospital in Manhattan has used video surgery to battle prostate cancer He removes the lymph nodes that drain the prostate gland Those nodes move fluid around the body outside the bloodstream If a cancer has spread the lymph nodes are the first to get the deadly cells With the nodes out the microscope reveals whether they are cancerous "If the nodes are clean" Dr Soso says "and the biopsy of the prostate shows cancer we go in and cut out the organ or treat it with radiation and the patient has an excellent future" He adds however "If the lymph nodes are cancerous treating the prostate itself is insufficient" In that case Sosa says "We do not operate or radiate—we treat the patient with medication" The medication stops the production 00 Al of the hormone testosterone upon which four out of five prostate cancers depend for growth Although this treatment slows the disease and improves the onelim tient's quality of life it unfortunately pa- is not a cure Colon pancreas liver Dr o mins illERELT:i TO ELIJOY a rifiZEiri 'Li 'LT"3 17-al?:1- E3 :111"L13 ESD New Chunky Classic Chicken Noodle It's an honest chicken noodle soup made the Chunky chunks of all chicken noodles broad and in carrots a celery hearty chicken broth way Big Huge like Chicken noodle soup just you'd expect only bigger Chunky Chicken Noode with Mushrooms This chicken noodle soup has always been a favorite So now you have a big choice to make Then again nobody says you have to choose 0111111Y SOUP SO DIG a EATS LIIIE A 111EAL Cooper- man of St Clare's Hospital in New York and other surgeons already have used the video technique to remove sections of diseased large bowels from patients There is one report of 20 total colon removals with no deaths Patients are able to go home in three to five days instead of the usual 10 days Cooperman well-knofor his skill in pancreatic surgery also has taken liver samples using video surgery And Dr Reich of Philadelphia has used the video method to repair injured bowels and urinary bladders Dr Karl Zucker professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine also is a pioneer video surgeon and has developed a treatment for intractable stomach ulcers With his PAGE 6 JANUARY 12 1992 PARADE MAGAZINE |