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AIDS victims susceptible
to rare form of cancer
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United Press International
BOSTON — Homosexuals with
AIDS are also susceptible to a rare
form of fast-growing cancer that at
tacks the bone marrow, brain and
abdomen, doctors from four U.S.
cities reported Wednesday.
Researchers in New York, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Houston
said they have found 90 homosexual
men with acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome who also have non-
Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“Tne non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas
are following AIDS like a shadow,”
said Dr. John L. Ziegler, a University
of California-San Francisco cancer
specialist and primary author of the
study published in the New England
Journal of Medicine.
The number of homosexual men
with this type of cancer has been in
creasing since AIDS was first discov
ered in 1980. Data from the San
Francisco and Los Angeles areas
have found a three-fold increase in
the rate of non-Hodgkin’s lympho
mas among homosexual men since
1980.
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a
cancer of the lymph nodes that may
be caused by viruses. When the can
cer is confined to the lymph nodes
there is a 40 to 50 percent chance of
survival rate by five years depending
on the type. When the disease has
gone beyond the lymph nodes, the
survival rate drops to a zero to 20
percent chance at five years.
Two other types of cancer — Ka
posi’s sarcoma and primary lym
phoma of the brain — are already
recognized as indications of AIDS.
The authors of this study urged that
non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas be in
cluded in the list of indications of
AIDS.
AIDS is believed to be caused by a
virus that attacks the body’s immune
system, making it unable to fight
other diseases — including cancer
and pneumonia — that spread
throughout the body and eventually
kill the victim.
The victims are usually either ho
mosexual men or intravenous drug
abusers. Other groups at high risk
id s
In Zaire, many victims are hetrosex-
ual women. A small number of in
fants have also been diagnosed as
AIDS victims.
AIDS has struck more than 5,400
people in the Unites States, nearly
2,500 of of whom have died.
It is believed to be spread through
sexual contact, contact with the
blood of infected patients, between
mother and child during birth and
through the sharing of infected nee
dles between intravenous drug abus
ers.
When AIDS victims get non-
Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the doctors
say the disease is particularly diffi
cult to treat.
“The response to treatment and
survival in our series has been disap
pointingly poor in the light of cur
rent treatment results in other pa
tients ... Only 53 percent of our
patients have had complete re
sponses and thus far over half have
had relapses,” the report said.
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TRENTON, N.J. — Consumer
advocate Ralph Nader said Wednes
day voters should carefully examine
how President Reagan’s policies
have affected the state and not be
misled by slick media ads when they
vote this fall.
Nader made his remarks after an
nouncing he was launching a voter
education program to inform people
of national issues in six states which
are regarded as key to the outcome
of the presidential election.
The information program will fo
cus on voters in New Jersey, Illinois,
Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Southern California, Nader said,
adding he hoped to raise $1 million
in private donations to fund the ef
fort.
“There seems to be a separation
between the record of the Reagan
government and the president him
self,” Nader said. “We want to di
minish that lack of information and
the lack of participation.”
Although he spent most of a 30-
minute news conference in Trenton
criticizing the Reagan administra
tion for the effect its environmental
and social policies have had on New
Jersey, he said the voter education
program was nonpartisan.
“I do not endorse presidential
candidates,” Nader said during the
Statehouse news conference. “We’re
not asking people to vote one way or
another.”
Nader said he had emphasized
Reagan’s record because he was the
incumbent and would focus on
Democratic presidential candidate
Walter Mondale’s proposals on is
sues such as cutting the growing fed
eral deficit once Mondale released
them.
Community meetings and pam
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voters of the issues in the presi
dential campaign so they do not vote
based on a “gut reaction to how a
candidate appears on television,”
Nader said.
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tion, “corporations refusing to toilet
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ronmental Protection Agency has
been cleaning up toxic waste sites na
tionwide, New Jersey’s hundreds of
hazardous waste dumps would not
be completely taken care of for thou
sands of years.
“While corporate polluters go un
regulated, life is not so easy for New
Jersey’s elderly and disabled,” Nader
said, noting there have been cut
backs in the food stamp program,
Medicare, and Social Security disabi
lity benefits.
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