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Extensive use of pill
may cause cancer
Slowly but surely
staff photo by Peter Rocha
The students who had to register for classes on
Monday may have thought time was standing still,
but this photo taken with a one second exposure
shows otherwise. At least these people are inside
G. Rollie White Coliseum. The line for registration
wound back around the swimming pool.
Car wrecks church,
fire damage results
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HOUSTON — Police were Investigators said the driver
seeking the driver of a car that of the car apparently was unhurt
slammed into a church Sunday because he or she lied the scene
and caused a pre-dawn fire that of the Airline Assembly of God
destroyed the church’s audi- Church fire.
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A new study suggests a possi
ble link between prolonged use
of the birth control pill and a
type of melanoma, the Universi
ty of California, San Francisco,
recently reported.
The study, supported by
funds from the National Cancer
Institute, presents users of oral
contraceptives with a new dilem
ma when it comes to weighing
risks of the pill against benefits.
The report on research by
Dr. Elizabeth Holly and associ
ates has been accepted for publi
cation in the Journal of the Na
tional Cancer Institute.
In view of the possible impli
cations for users of the pill, the
epidemiologist was asked what
she would recommend to a
daughter who wanted to use the
birth control pill?
“I would say weigh the risks
against the benefits,” she said.
“If you must use the pill, don’t
use it for long, no more than five
years. Generally, I would recom
mend that a younger woman try
to use another form of birth con
trol,” she said.
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Different advice was given by
Dr. John A.H. Lee, who was
asked the same question. Lee, a
skin cancer expert, is professor
of epidemiology at the Universi
ty of Washington School of Pub
lic Health in Seattle. He led a
symposium on melanoma at the
recent First World Conference
Cancers of the Skin.
“I don’t know that I would
advise against use of the birth
control pill,” he said. “There is
the matter of risks and benefits,
of trade-offs.
“I would be most concerned
that she be sensitized to the early
signs of melanoma so she could
spot it at an early stage. And that
she had a doctor who knew that,
too,” he said.
Lee said when melanoma is
caught at the early stage no one
should die from it. He said a
mole that enlarges or changes
color often marks the early stage
of melanoma.
He suggested people on the
birth control pill should be on
the lookout for such changes.
When one is noted, the next step
is to see a doctor who is able to
interpret the meaning of the
alterations, Lee said.
A bleeding mole is a third
sign, but Lee said it is foolish to
wait for that.
In the United States 2 percent
of cancers are accounted for by
melanoma. The kind Holly
found possibly associated with
prolonged use of birth control
pills is known as a superficial
spreading type. It stays in the
outermost layers of the skin for a
long time.
That is a characteristic that
makes it easily treated by
surgery when spotted in the very
early stages, according to Lee.
Holly’s study involved 87
Washington state women, rang
ing in age from 37 to 74. The
women were diagnosed as
fering from malignant
ma between 1976 and 19ii|
The epidemiologist anii
associates, Noel S. WeisiB!j
Jonathan Lift;, also from
University of Californias
Francisco Departmentoflf
miology and Internal!
Health, interviewed tht
women, asking about pi
and reproductive history
The women’s historiesi
compared with those of
women, a random sample s
the same area.
Holly said she found-
women who had taken
control pills for five yearsot
ger had superficial spret
melanoma than women win
not take the pills.
Her report said theincit
cancer rates were even
pronounced amongwomei
had used the pill for lOyei
longer. No effect was fe
among women who had
the pill for less thanfivec
The scientists also I
higher incidence of c
among women who had
first child after age 30,a
mon observation amongt|
miologists probing for con
factors in the backgrourt:
cancer patients.
“This finding, together
the link to birth control
suggests that hormone i
lances might playaroleins
ficial spreading melane
Holly said.
Senators compromise
on polling booth bill
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AUSTIN — Senators on
opposite sides of a bill to allow
voters to take written aids in the
polling booth reached a delicate
compromise on the measure
Saturday, averting a filibuster
that could have hopelessly
mired remaining Senate busi
ness.
The dispute developed over
Senate approval of a bill to re
peal a state law which prohibits
voters from taking written
guides into the voting booth
with them.
The bill, authored by Rep.
Debra Danburg, D-Houston,
and already approved by the
House, appeared on its way to
final approval when Sen
“Buster” Brown, R-Lake
son, raised the threatofai
ter against the measure,
The bill was given tens
approval on a voice vote
the Senate rejected two a®
ments which would have
the bill applicable only in
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