University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 17, 1987
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Cancer research slow. report shows
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Progress in the country's fight against cancer has been much more limited than suggested by federal statistics, said a congressional report released yesterday.
The General Accounting Office studied a dozen forms of cancer and found dramatic improvements in survival rates in only two relatively rare cancers, acute leukemia and non-Hodkins lymphoma.
"For the majority of cancers we examined, the actual improvements have been small or have been overestimated by the published rates." GAO said.
"For lung, rectum and breast cancer (the most prevalent malignancies), gains in survival have been only modest," GAO said. "The result is that the dramatic improvements in
leukemia and NHL are muted by the overwhelming prevalence of the other cancers. From this perspective, it is difficult to find that there has been much progress."
The agency recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services include in future reviews of cancer statistics a description of factors "likely to cloud the interpretation of survival rates."
According to the agency, the federal department concurred with the recommendation and several other findings, although the department considered the tone of the report "unduly negative."
The federal National Cancer Institute, meanwhile, distributed a news release quoting its director, Vincent T. DeVita Jr., as saying that the report relied too much on interviews with cancer experts, and that "use of
such an opinion-based analysis makes the report limited in its accuracy and usefulness."
In addition, the NCI news release quoted Edward Sondik, chief statistician at the institute, as saying that overall survival rates were not the only measure of progress, and that other positive signs included a declining death rate among cancer patients under 55.
Sondik also said that treatment advances of a decade ago were only now beginning to show in cancer statistics because "it takes time for changes in treatment to be reflected."
The General Accounting Office report was requested by Rep. Ted Weiss, D.N.Y., chairman of the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources. He
asked GAO, the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress, to determine whether reported improvements in cancer patient survival rates reflect true progress.
GAO said that advances in the detection and treatment of cancer from 1950 to 1982 had extended patient survival for all but one of the 12 cancers it studied. Earlier detection, chemotherapy and better surglimination radiation procedures accounted for the improvement, GAO said.
According to Weiss, NCI officials in recent years have repeatedly said that almost half the cancers in the United States have been cured or are curable on the basis that nearly half of all cancer patients are alive five years after they are diagnosed.
KCPL rate reduction request to be heard
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Kansas City Power &
Light Co.'s plan to reduce the rates it
charges customers for power from
the Wolf Creek nuclear plant will be
presented to state utility regulators
May 27-29.
KCPL, which serves about 144,000 customers in eastern Kansas, wants to cut its rates by $10.3 million, or about 5 percent, as part of a rate reduction, equalization and stabilization plan.
The Kansas Corporation Commission approved a similar restructuring plan last month for Kansas Gas and Electric Co. of Wichita, one of KCPL's partners in the $3.5 billion Wolf Creek project.
the reduction would be phased in over two years with a 2 percent reduction next month and a 3 percent reduction in May 1988. The rate cut would mean average residential customers would save about $47 a year.
A key provision of the plan calls for KCPL to drop its appeal of the KCC's bellow Creek rate decision, now proposed by the State Legislature, if the restructuring plan is approved.
The utility is offering to cut rates based on expected savings from the this year's federal tax reform laws.
The reduction would be phased in over two years with a 2 percent reduction next month.
The 5 percent rate cut would follow a 16.2 percent jump in KCPL's rates two years ago when Wolf Creek started operating.
KCPL was granted the $28.2 million rate hike to pay for its 47 percent ownership share in the nuclear power plant.
The complex restructuring proposal also includes changing from a 30-year to a 40-year depreciation schedule on the power plant and changing the company's accounting procedures, related to value of the plant, to increase tax benefits.
Farmer saves mail from creek waters
The Associated Press
CONCORDIA - Add submersion to the list of hazards that won't deter postal officials in north-central Kansas from delivering the mail.
More than a thousand pieces of mail, submerged when a U.S. Postal Service truck and a mail carrier went into the floodwaters of the Buffalo Creek Wednesday, have been recovered, according to Richard Mason, superintendent of postal operations in Concordia. The mail will be delivered today, he said.
Farmer David Walker, 25, dived into the creek and used an ax to shatter the rear window of the truck and drag substitute letter carrier Donald Hutchinson, 64, to safety.
"I thought I was going to die," saidutchinson, a retired grocery who was working in the food industry.
"This may be the last day to file income taxes, but this is the first day of the rest of my life." Hutchinson said.
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Hutchinson had been talking with Walker and another farmer, Greg Thoman, minutes before he took a wrong turn and was swept into the creek. Thoman threw Walker the ax used in the rescue.
Mason said a sheriff's vehicle towed the mail truck and seven bundles of mail out of the creek Wednesday night. Newspapers wrapped around the mail truck up most of the water and protected the rest of the mail, Mason said.
Heavy rain sent floodwaters to their highest levels since 1951 on the Saline and Solomon rivers this week.
"It's not as bad as you might think," Mason said. "We've got it in the basement, drying out."
Two electric fans were used to speed the drying of the mail, which contained only one income tax return. Mason said. The person filing the return was aware of its submersion and filed a duplicate, Mason said.
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