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[New techniques drop risk: study
Breast X-rays recommended
United Press International
|NEW YORK — A combina-
i of breast X-rays and physic-
' al examination is the most effec-
method of discovering
feast cancer — especially tiny
imors — in women over 50, a
-year American Cancer Soci-
' etv study says.
The society’s National Task
:on Breast Cancer Control
|id Sunday that earlier fears
breast X-rays were the
fcurce of many cancers have
ken overcome through better
l-ray techniques that reduced
adiation.
“There also is evidence that
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'that
screening with mammography
— breast X-rays — can detect
very small, localized breast can
cers in women 35 to 49 years old,
which in turn suggests the possi
bility of better survival rates in
this age group as well,” the study
said.
The program involved
280,000 women who signed up
for annual exams. It was f unded
with $8 million from the ACS
and about $47 million from the
National Cancer Institute.
It found breast X-rays espe
cially good at pinpointing tiny
cancers.
“Nearly 90 percent of the
3,557 breast cancers uncovered
by the project were found by
mammography,” the ACS said
in its summary of the report
published in the July-August
issue of “CA,” an ACS journal
sent to 400,000 doctors.
Mammography scored espe
cially high in discovery of the
smallest cancers -— those which
respond most favorably to treat
ment.
“It (mammography) alone
accounted for 59 percent of
noninvasive cancers which were
identified,” the ACS said.
A mammogram costs from
$85 to $100, but the price may
be higher or lower, depending
on the radiologist’s lifestyle, his
overhead and his fee-setting
policies.
“Recruitment of women into
the project was highly success
ful, due in part to media atten
tion given to the former First
Lady, Mrs. Gerald Ford, and the
wife of the vice president, Mrs.
Nelson Rockefeller, both of
whom were successfully treated
for breast cancer,” the report
said.
The project got off to a shaky
start when respected cancer sci
entists suggested the radiation
from mammography might
cause breast cancer in women
who otherwise would not de
velop it.
“In the last few years, the
diagnostic capabilities of mam
mography have improved con
siderably, while at the same time
the radiation dose to the breast
has been greatly diminished,”
the ACS Task Force said.
“The result is that with today’s
technology, judiciously used
and in trained hands, the likeli
hood of developing radiation-
induced breast cancer from
mammography is small.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
lifornia’s sprawling $1.4 mil-
jn governor’s mansion — built
Ronald Reagan but never
ed —is headed for the auction
lock.
Buried in a package of state
dget bills signed last week by
Edmund G. Brown Jr. was
clause putting the mansion on
foi
'Cm
the market, to be sold to the
highest bidder.
Without landscaping, unfur
nished and often indelicately de
scribed as the state’s foremost
white elephant, the mansion
covers 12,000 square feet of
prime land overlooking the
American River and is adjacent
to a county golf course. It has
two huge kitchens and eight
bathrooms.
It was built in 1975 on about a
dozen acres in suburban Car
michael, 12 miles from the Capi
tol. The land was donated by
friends of Reagan when he was
governor.
But the house was completed
after Reagan left the governor’s
office and Brown, labeling it a
Taj Mahal, refused to live there.
Some Republicans have bri
dled at the order to sell the man
sion, viewing it as a jab at
Reagan, and there is talk of
legislation to block the sale when
lawmakers return in August
from their summer recess.
But Republicans are a minor
ity in both houses and would
have to muster support from
Democrats to prevent sale of the
mansion, frequently cited as a
waste of money in Fiscally tight
times.
Senate Finance Committee
Chairman Alfred Alquist of San
Jose, author of the law ordering
the sale, quietly pledged to Re
publicans that he would carry a
bill next month to reverse the
order. But aides say he won’t be
pushing hard to undo his law.
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22 injured in crowd
as fireworks explode
United Press International
Twenty-two people were in-
red by a Fourth of July fire-
orks display that exploded on
e ground and hurled aerial
dets into a crowd of about
300 in Lakewood, Ohio.
Most of the injuries at the
laliewood accident were mincA'
luttwo people had to be hospit-
lized.
John Weese, 7, of Lakewood,
juffered burns on his right arm
indwas in stable condition. Lar-
yBadurina, of Lakewood, who
|uffered burns and cuts, also
as in stable condition.
A Lakewood police spokes-
an said sparks, apparently
om a rocket being launched,
jgnited others on the ground,
ending them into the crowd.
In other accidents related to
diday fireworks, a 48-year-old
|woman died in a fire in New
Haven, Conn., and a New York
_Jty teenager blew off his hand
| trying to make a firecracker. Au-
orities said at least 10 other
eople were injured by fire-
'orks.
In New York, Robert Joseph,
17, was in guarded condition
Monday at Roosevelt Hospital
here doctors amputated his
hand Saturday night after a pipe
bomb he concocted exploded.
A fire set by Fireworks in Los
Angeles damaged a section of
the vacant Pan Pacific Audi
torium, a city landmark slated
for demolition, a Fire Depart
ment spokesman said. Fire
works in Angeles National
Forest sparked a brush fire that
had charred 80 acres by the time
firefighters had 60 percent of it
contained, a U.S. Forest Service
spokeswoman said.
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