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V WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1980 Faberge invests in device for breast cancer detection United Press International NEW YORK — Faberge, a firm famous for perfumes, says it is invest ing in a breast-cancer detection de vice that is worn inside bras and could be on the market in six months. Faberge said the device — heat- sensitive chemicals in thin, pliable triangular wafers that tuck inside bra cups — is undergoing expanded field tests. Dr. Harold L. Karpman, Faberge medical director, said the chemicals, which he did not name, change color when heat from the breast becomes greater than normal. Cancer tissue tends to be hotter than that of normal tissue. Faberge said the patented device — called Breast Cancer Screening Indicator — is safe, non-toxic, non irritating and non-carcinogenic. Monday, Faberge announced the firm had “entered an agreement” with BCSI Laboratories Inc., a pri vately held New Jersey firm, “for the clinical study, development and commercial exploitation of a patented, simple, home-use device to aid in the early detection of breast cancer.” Karpman said if all goes well in the expanded clinical trials the product should be on the market in six months to a year. Leukemia detection easier The associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles Medical School is a founder and past president of the American Thermography Society — a group that has been looking for early signs of cancer by taking heat- readings of breast tissue. “The first cancer, ” he said, “prob ably is no bigger than the dot made by a pencil tip.” It doubles in size about every four months. “With a heat test, the hope is that cancers just the size of the head of a pin can be spotted.” Faberge’s announcement said it has acquired rights to purchase up to 80 percent of the BCSTs common stock. Initial studies at Georgetown Uni versity School of Medicine under the direction of Dr. Betty Hamilton showed the chemical heat sensor is an effective means of recording underlying breast temperature in a reliable and reproducible manner. In addition to that study, another involving 28 patients showed the de vice detected all breast abnormali ties found by physical and other ex aminations, such as mammography. Faberge said the sensor wafers are placed in the cups of a bra and worn for 10 to 15 minutes. The devices are then removed and read by the Press freedom declining United Press International WASHINGTON — American newspaper editors were told Tuesday that freedom of the press is declining throughout the world and officials of a U.N. agency are leading the retreat. “Press freedom does not exist or is on the decline in most of the world today, ” said Tina Hills of El Mundo in San Juan, chairwoman of the American Society of News papers’ international communi cations committee, in a report de livered to the group’s convention. “A growing number of nations, led by socialist and Third World countries, does not share our con cept of a free press and the free flow of information,” the report said. “Information around the world, even in many Western countries, is being regulated as never before. This trend threatens our cherished free doms more than some of the wor risome developments in our own country.” The report said while press freedom has advanced in Spain, Portugal, Nigeria and sevtt other countries, licensing of joj nalists and government contro!. the press is spreading in |i Western hemisphere — name! in Nicaragua, Chile, Costa Ris Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti and Cuba. The biggest problem, said, is an attempt by Tit World countries to put the 1.1 Educational, Scientific i tural Organization on reconj ^ favor of government control news reporting. United Press International BOSTON — A doctor at the Sid ney Farber Cancer Institute says sci entists have figured out a way to clas sify some types of childhood leuke mia which would them help detect which patients are more treatable. “We now have the ability to discri minate and categorize the children (who have leukemia) into different groups,” Dr. Stuart F. Schlossman said in an interview with the Boston Globe Tuesday. “We can tell which patients re spond to therapy, and we can iden tify those who did poorly in the past, and try different treatments,” he said. Schlossman, also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School said it has been found, for example, that acute lymphoblastic leukemia occurs in children in several diffe rent forms, and some forms are more treatable than others. “This allows us to dissect popula tions of cells from one another,” he said. “And that is a very important concept. What looked, several years ago, to be acute leukemia in child hood is now turning out to be several different kinds of leukemia. ” He said with the use of pure anti bodies — substances produced by special hybrid turmor cells growing in culture — it is possible to separate leukemia into several different sub sets. Another important finding is that large amounts of pure, specific anti bodies, called “mono-clonal anti bodies” recognize and lock onto dis ease organisms, and set them up for destruction, Schlossman said. In the new work, these special substances, the pure antibodies, are being made outside the body, in laboratory dishes, and are becoming available in large quantities for re search. “We know we can deliver the anti bodies to every leukemia cell in the body,” Schlossman said. “We don’t know yet how important this is going to be.” Man refuses state pardon United Press International SOMERS, Conn. — John “Bud dy” Palm refused a state pardon that would have made him a free man after 43 years. He says he will stay in prison until the state declares him innocent of a 1936 murder. The frail, white-haired inmate, who has spent more time as a prison er than any other inmate in Connec ticut, told the state Board of Pardons Monday he was convicted by a “kan garoo court.” But the board said it had no power to declare him inno cent, only to set him free. Palm, who turns 69 this week, is believed to be the first inmate ever to turn down a pardon in the state. He appeared confused during his brief appearance Monday before the board, first saying he’d accept the pardon and then saying he wouldn’t. He often rambled when ques tioned by board members in a bleak hearing room at the maximum- security state prison at Somers and gave conflicting statements about his views of the pardon. But after hearing from Palm’s attorney and a psychiatrist, the board agreed to rescind the pardon, which commuted Palm’s life sent ence to time served as of April 1. 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