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Wednesday, September 4, 1996
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Douglas County AIDS Project Volunteer Orientation
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Saturday, September 14 9:00 - Noon
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Are you looking for a great way to get in shape? Are you looking to meet new people at KU? Are you ready to be a part of the most exciting sport at KU?
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The Kansas Water Polo Club will be holding an informational meeting Wednesday September 4th, 7:00p.m. at Robinson Pool
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For further information call Todd Hirsch or Chris Anderson at 842-8156
Longer life possible for cancer patients
Two treatments could prolong life
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WASHINGTON — Treating lung cancer with both chemotherapy and radiation almost triples the number of patients who live at least five years, according to a new study.
But researchers cautioned that even with combination therapy the future remains bleak for lung cancer patients, as those who survive even five years are a minority.
"It it isn't great," said Robert O. Dillman, physician and lead author of the study, which will be published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
"But when you look at how common this type of cancer is, the difference could amount to an addition
The study found that 17 percent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer who received chemotherapy followed by radiation were alive five years later. For patients treated only with radiation, the five-year survival rate was 6 percent.
of several thousand people still alive," he said.
Dillman, who is with the Hoag Cancer Center in Newport Beach, Calif., said the research shows that after years of virtually no improvement in survival rates, researchers are starting to make progress in lung cancer.
One reason for the progress, he said, may be that today's lung cancer patients are more likely to have quit smoking before they were diagnosed or more willing to quit once they are diagnosed. Kicking the smoking habit, he said, boosts survival chances.
Lung cancer is the nation's third
"...the difference could amount to an addition of several thousand people still alive."
Robert O. Dillman author of cancer study
most common malignancy, behind breast and prostate cancers. The American Cancer Society says lung cancer will be diagnosed in 177,000 Americans this year and will kill 158,000.
Non-small cell is the most com.
mon type of lung cancer and causes 75 to 80 percent of the disease found in smokers, Dillman said.
7 found in smokers, Dilman care. In the study, Dillman and his coauthors conducted comparative treatment techniques on 155 patients with late-stage non-small cell lung cancer. Seventy-eight patients received both chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and 77 received only radiation. All of the patients were then re-examined periodically for seven years.
At the end of a year, 54 percent of those receiving the combination therapy were still alive, while 40 percent of those getting radiation only were still living. After two years, the survival rates were 28 percent for the combination group and 13 percent for the radiation group. At five years, 17 percent who received combination therapy were alive compared with 6 percent of the radiation treatment group.
Bomb discovered in church; removed before pope's visit
LA ROCHE-SUR-YON France — A parish priest found what experts said yesterday was a homemade bomb in the basilica of a church that Pope John Paul II will visit this month.
The bomb was discovered Monday in a crypt of the St. Laurent-sur-Sevre church in La Roche-sur-Yon in France's western Brittany region.
The device was hidden near the foot of a tomb holding the remains of Louis-Marie Grignon de montfort, one of two 18th-century French clerics the pope plans to honor on his Sept. 19-22 visit.
Beneath the bomb was an inscription in a garbled mixture of Latin and French — "in
nomine pape poun," or in the name of the pope, boom."
Experts described the bomb as a crude pyrotechnical device and said it had been planted sometime during the weekend. Bomb disposal experts defused it, and no one was injured.
The bomb was powerful enough to have had the capability to cause significant damage, authorities said.
The church is the first stop on the pope's visit, his fifth to France since 1980.
Leftist activists and others have planned large protests, contending the pontiff's visit violates separation of church and state.
Hurricane expected to hit Atlantic coast
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Hurricane Fran roared along at 115 mph last night, and its winds are expected to get even stronger as it aims to make landfall along the southeastern U.S. coast late tomorrow.
A hurricane watch, meaning the storm could hit within 36 hours, could go up for Georgia and South Carolina by today, meteorologist Robert Molleda said last night at the National Hurricane Center.
Much of the Bahamas was bracing for a possible hit even though it appeared Fran would pass north of the islands.
Fran is expected to take a gradual turn to the northwest early today, Molleda said.
Fran's winds jumped quickly from 85 mph to 115 mph early yesterday, making it a Category 3 hurricane, capable of causing extensive damage.
The U.S. Navy sent ships to sea for
safety, and disaster officials in parts of the Southeast worried that people may not take the threat seriously.
"Our concern is that the public may become less responsive to evacuation orders," said Joe Farmer, a representative for South Carolina's Emergency Preparedness Division. "We recognize that as the public is exposed to more and more of these, the need for us to reinforce this message is greater."
Hurricane Bertha, which killed nine, came ashore in North Carolina in July with sustained winds of just 75 mph, causing millions of dollars in damage.
A hurricane warning was in effect for the northwest Bahamas, including the casino havens in Nassau and Freeport. Residents throughout the country were told to stay indoors.
San Salvador administrator Charles King said winds were near tropical storm force yesterday afternoon.
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Celebrate Star Trek's 30th Anniversary with the release of The Joy Machine, the novelization of a neverbefore-seen story treatment from the original show.
Dr. James Gunn, KU Professor Emeritus of English, has produced this novelization based on the outline by late science fiction legend Theodore Sturgeon, author of Amok Time and Share Leave, two of the most beloved original episodes.
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