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University Daily Kansan, April 7.1983
Nuclear medicine aids detection of cancer
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
A small, radioactive chemical travels through the patient's blood and deposits itself along the spinal cord. A technician at the University of Kansas Medical Center arranges a narrow, vertical radiation detector at the patient's side.
At a large panel at the end of the dimmed room, two television monitors glow with the intricacies of the patient's spinal cord. One of the televisions is in color, the other in black and white.
AN IMAGE OF THE SPINE on a rectangular sheet of plastic slides from a slot at the corner of the panel. Distorting the image are two black dots — representing either the results of the head of cancer or infection into the bone.
The first use of the radioactive chemicals, called nuclear medicine,
was the diagnosis and treatment of malfunctions of the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is a hormone-secreting organ just under the collar bone.
Although the final result is much like a conventional X-ray, the nuclear technique can detect the progress of cancer six months earlier and concentrate on a specific organ or section of the body.
Physicians and technicians in nuclear medicine at the Med Center performed, more than 7,000 nuclear diagnostic tests last year. Nationwide, more than 10 million have been performed.
RALPH ROBINSON, NUCLEAR physician and professor of diagnostic radiology at the Med Center, said that the radioactive chemicals, called radionuclides, had been perfused to detect progress of various forms of cancer.
The future for nuclear medicine, he said, will probably go beyond its diagnostic use and will include treatment of the progression of cancer in the bones
With conventional radioactive X-rays, the rays are shot through the person and imprinted on film behind the person.
With the injection of the radionuclide tracer, which produces gamma rays, the tracer goes directly to an area specified and a gamma camera or detector picks up the radiation from the gamma rays. Robinson said.
The source of the radioactivity is inside the person, where it will erode or break.
BECAUSE OF THE LOW LEVEL of the radiation, usually with a half-life of six hours, he said, there are no side effects.
"The use of radiation is safer in many ways than X-rays," he said.
But he said the reason doctors relied on X-rays rather than radiation was that the exact identity of the dots was not certain.
"If we see a black area on the
image." Robinson said, "we can mention that it's either spreading cancer or an infection of some sort. But we have to go on medical history in a lot of these cases or wait to send them for X-ravers later on to be sure."
Although the test is not absolute, he said, the benefits of nuclear medicine are not to be underestimated.
MANY OF THE PATIENTS who use nuclear medicine have already had surgery for the removal of a tumor, he said. And the use of nuclear medicine could also stop the progress if someone whether the surgery stopped the progress of the disease.
"If a doctor has suspicions that a patient still has cancer," he will send them here," he said. "We can decide not only if the patient has cancer, but if it does not have any months in detection really makes a difference. It prevents a lot of anxiety."
But detection is not the only aspect of nuclear medicine, he said.
Robinson said that in another three or four years, radioactive chemicals might be used to reverse the progression of cancer in the bone by building a microcancerous area, reducing the size of the tumor and the pain of the patient.
HE SAID HE WAS NOW conducting an experiment using monoclonal antibodies on 100 patients and has had some successes. Monoclonal antibodies are thought to have the capacity to suppress tumors,
Few patients worry about being injected with a radioactive chemical,
"Of course we'll get those two or so a year," he said. "But most people realize that we're dealing with very low levels of radiation."
Tracers used in detection are radioactive when they are shipped in their lead cases to the Med Center. But some tests that痰 is done in the radiology lab.
By United Press International
Nations' response to oil slick delayed by Iran-Iraq conflict
KUWAIT — Eight nations threatened by the giant Persian Gulf oil stick yesterday postponed an attempt to forge a united response to the crisis after Iran and Iraq refused to stop fighting long enough to cap the leaking oil wells.
Kuwait Health Minister Abdul Rahman al Awal said a meeting to decide on regional action against the spill was put off until today because "extensive contacts with the parties concerned" had included, the Kuwait News Agency reported.
BUT UNTIL WORKERS can reach the damaged Iranian wells, up to 10,000
The eight states bordering the Gulf have taken individual action to protect their facilities, especially the deserts. The United States has some states with most of their water.
barrels of new crude is spewing into the water daily.
The delay in the talks followed a flurry of diplomatic activity by the Arab Gulf states most threatened by the spreading slick. But they appeared to have been slain in convincing Iran and Iraq to temporarily halt their 31-month-old war.
"All the Iraqis have to do is say we are sorry, we were wrong for the attack on March 2," Iran's ambassador to Kuwait, Al Shams Ardekani, said just before yesterday's meeting was due to open.
He was referring to Iraqi air strikes that damaged wells in Iran's Norwuz offshore oil field, sending an estimated 100,000 spawning into the Persian Gulf daily.
SINCE THEN AN ESTIMATED 250,000 barrels of oil with the consistency of molasses have spread out
across the lower half of the Gulf, a Saudi scientist said Tuesday.
Ardekani, demanding an Iraqi guardian against attacks, said "we will not send in teams without immunity" to the coast. The wells 50 miles of the Iranian coast.
In New York, an American oil slick expert warned that if the spill is not cleaned up quickly. Gulf nations could be forced to close their desalination plants.
"If those are forced to close because of contaminated water, that region is going to face a very serious water problem," said Richard Gobl, executive editor of the authoritative weekly Oil Spill Intelligence Report.
Environment experts feared permanent damage to the Gulf's rich fisheries, with the United Arab Emirates already banning fishing and other states running constant checks for contamination.
Police battle mobs in Brazil
By United Press International
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Authorities out of 10,000里阻 police yesterday to battle rock-throwing mobs in a third day of looting and violence by rising unemployment and the government's austerity program.
"We are going to use full strength to bring back peace for the population," said police chief Co. Joao Cariol, a spokesman for government put the army on alert.
Unofficial estimates said that 300 shops had been destroyed since Monday and that more than 450 people had been arrested. More than 100 people were treated for minor injuries, and one 63-year-old father of seven was killed, apparently by a stray bullet.
"We have to break the rich," one 17-year-old roid who claimed to have been unemployed for two years said.
Seven thousand policemen in
civilian clothes and 3,000 others on horses and in riol control vehicles, patrolled the city, arresting an unknown number of rioters and using tear gas and clubs to disperse mobs.
Rioters rampaged with Sao Paulo's central square, the Praca da Se, fighting police and wrecking dozens of empty fruit and antique items after beat a suspect with an iron bat when the suspect resisted arrest.
"We're hungry, we're hungry," looters shouted as they smashed into a supermarket.
A POLICEMAN WAS HIT by a paving stone in the head and was sped away at high speed by other policemen who shouted at pro-union We are going to come back and you guys are really coming to get it now."
Difficulties for the Brazilian poor have been sharpened by a government austerity program designed to boost exports, building on its $33 billion foreign debt.
One policeman, the suspect and his accomplice were wounded in a series of shootings that punctuated the 100-mile chase after a bank robbery in Bristol in which more than $45,500 was lost, police said.
MAIDENHEAD, England — With sirens screaming, a police convoy of squad-cars, vans, a helicopter and commandered trucks captured a bank robber suspect who police said hijacked a milk truck with its driver yesterday and led police on a 100-mile right out of a Hollywood screenplay.
POLICE FINALLY HAD to commander several civilian truck-trailer rigs to block the highway, forcing the truck onto an exit ramp which they also blocked with commandeered vehicles and a helicopter.
Armed police trained their guns on the milk truck cab and the man inside threw up his hands and surrendered. His hostage was not injured.
The chase began after the two suspected robbers fled the bank in the western English port city of Bristol with the loot in a blue sedan, police
Police cars caught up with them as they headed out of town and an unarmed policeman who approached the police car and seriously wounded, police said.
The suspects sped off, followed by 20 police cars. A shootout erupted and one of the suspects was felled by a police markman. The suspect, shot in the stomach and head, was taken to the hospital.
Suspect leads British police on wild chase
HIS COMPANION ESCAPED, and with the getaway car out of action he commanded a milk truck at gunpoint and ordered the driver to take the car and drive it over which police cars and trucks, lights flashing and sirens screaming.
They radioed warnings to highway police to clear the three-lane road to London and the gunned speed eavesdropping agencies, Avon, Wiltshire and Berkshire.
ISLAM—AN INTRODUCTION
"WOMEN IN ISLAM"
The Islamic Center of Lawrence will present its 4th lecture in a series of introductory lectures about Islam. (The lectures are designed mainly for non-Muslims):
By United Press International
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