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March 31, 1982
Scientist: Cancer cure works
United Press International
DAYTONA BEACH — An
Italian researcher says his team
produced a near-total cure rate
in a group of advanced cancer
patients by alternating a stan
dard treatment with a new com
bination of drugs.
The most effective known
treatment for advanced cases of
Hodgkin’s disease is a drug com
bination called MOPP tbi the
first letters of the drugs used.
About 25 percent of the patients
who received it fail to respond.
But Dr. Gianni Bonadonna,
director of the National 1 umot
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Institute in Milan. Italy, told an
Mnerican Cancel Society semi
nar Monday that MOPP was sig-
n !:. tnth improved when alter
nated with ABVD, a combina
tion he designed.
1 his probabh is going to in-
ii case the cure rate of MOPP so
vou sin>uld alternate and get the
best of both regimens,” Bona
donna said.
Hodgkin’s disease, a cancer of
he lymph nodes and spleen,
aliens onlv one in 7,000 Amer
icans, according to the Amer
ican Cancer Society. But it has
been saiyled out because it is the
most oiinnon among people 15
to 20. 1 he cancer society esti
mates the disease will cause
1,000 deaths in 1982.
I 1m tc-eight patients in the
sindv received MOPP
.done and .‘>7 received ABVD
and MOPP on a monthly alter-
i i ion bom September 1974 to
August 1980. 1 here was a com
pute remission m 71 percent of
MOPP patients, and in 92 per
cent of those receiving the alter
nate treatment. Remissions
lasted from two to eight years.
The 92 percent remission rate
meant only one patient re
lapsed.
Fifty percent of the patients
on the MOPP and ABVD com
bination treatment suffered se
vere vomiting, and 10 percent
had hair loss.
MOPP stands for mech-
lorethamine, vincristine (trade
name Oncovin), procarbazine
and prednisone. ABVD is dox
orubicin (Adriamycin), bleomy
cin, vinblastine and dacarbazine.
Bonadonna said further stu
dies will hav e to be done to con
firm the results and suggested
an independent study in a larger
clinical trial.
The concept of cyclic treat
ment is already being studied by
others, including the National
Gancer Institute, he said.
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TIONS SOCIETY: There
will be u guest speaker from
the University of Texas at
6:15 p.m. in 305 Fermier
UNITED CAM PUS M1NIS-
I RY: The Aggie Supper iv
scheduled for 6:15 p.m. in
the A&M Presbyterian
Church, 601 Church St.
MSC VARIETY SHOW:
Tickets for the show on April
16 at 7:30 p.m. at e on sale in
the Rudder box office. Cost is
$2.50 tor students and $3.50
for non-students.
ECONOMICS SOCIE IT:
Dr. Ron Phillips will speak on
Alternatives to Western Eco
nomic Systems at 7 p.m. in
350 MSC.
AGGIE SCOU I S: Meeting at
9 p.m. in 502 Rudder to dis
cuss last minute plans and
other details about canoe trip
on April 3 and 4. if vou plan
to go, this meeting is manda
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HILLEL CLUB: Ruth Clear
field will speak on “The Jew
ish Viewpoint on Abortion”
at 7:30 pan. at the center.
NATIONAL AGRI-
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need to attend this meeting at
8 p.m. in 113 Kleberg.
AG COMMU N1CA I ()RS
OF TOMORROW: Im
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the Journalism library. All
members are urged to
attend.
TEXAS AGGIE MOTOR-
CYCEE CLUB: A planning
session lor the weekend
cumpoui will be at 8:30 p.m.
in 110 Military Science
Building.
PRE LAW SOCIETY: Dean
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School will speak at 7 p.m. in
301 Rudder.
WOMEN STUDENT’S
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meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 204C
of the library.
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be a Candlelight Commun
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10 p.m. in the chapel, 315 N.
College Main.
WHEELCHAIR SQUARE
DANCINC 1: Instruction
and practice will be at 3 p.m.
in 304 E. Kyle.
CATHOLIC ST U DENTS
ASSOCIATION: There
will be a Newman Club meet
ing at 7:30 p.m. in the stu-
dent. center. There will be an
off-campus mass at 10 p.m. in
the Oak woof 1 partv house.
Mil .LIT JEWISH STU
DENT CENTER: Services
will be lead by Dr. Yechiai
Weitsman followed bv a Ho-
men \ ashen Oneg Shabat at
8 p.m. in the student center.
! AMU CHESS CLUB: Play
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come to the meet ing at 7 p.m
in 410 Rudder.
AGRICULTURE ECONO
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out computers in agriculture
and a discussion of officer
elections at 7 pan. in 209
I larrington.
MSC AMATEUR RADIO
COMMITTEE: Aggiecross
will be discussed and with a
scrapping party afterwards at
7:30 p.m. in 140 MSC.
CEPHE1D VARIABLE:
“Heavy Metal” will be shown
at 7:3(i p.rn. and 9:45 p.m. in
Rudder Theatre.
UNI TED CAMPUS MINIS
TRY: Women’s Bible study
will be at 7:30 p.m. at 1002
Pershing.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR
CHRIST: There will be
leadership training class at
7:30 p.m. in 108 Harrington
Evervone is welcome.
UNIVERSITY LUTHER-
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Sherwood Nursing Home to
sing and visit at 6:30 p.m.
from the University Luther
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Main.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS
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Class 11 will meet at 6 p.m. in
the student center. An adora
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will be from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m
in St. Mary’s Church. There
will l>e an off-campus mass at
10 p.m. in the Old College
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LAFAYETTE, N.J. — Work
ers used jackhammers Tuesday,
trying to f ree the lifeless body of
a Bov Scout leader trapped
three days before in a narrow
cave passage 17 feel under
ground.
Rescue workers managed
Monday night to reach State
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and through which they hoped
to hoist him out. In 3 1 /.' hours of
effort they were only able to
move his body about one foot.
T he rescuers then took up
jackhammers to loosen the im
peding rocks, even though thev
said they expected the digging
would cause some rocks to fall
on Weltner.
“ There are no vital signs,
John Hempel, eastern regional
coordinator for the National
Gave Rescue Commission, said
Monday night.
“I don’t know if there’s any
hope now,” State Police Super
intendent Clinton Pagano said
Gave experts flown in from
Pittsburgh to help in the rescue
operation said victims in such
situations often die from expo
sure to sub-freezing tempera
tures. to which Weltner wassttb-
jected lor two nights.
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