Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 0 j drug not effective laetrile testers say the Washington Post Washington laetrile has been tested. It is not in these Blunt words or. Charles g. Moertel of the Mayo clinic yesterday announced the wholly negative results of a federally financed study of the most controversial anti cancer drug in medical history. Of 156 patients All with cancers that either had not responded or were not Likely to respond to other treatments 102 Are now dead just nine months after the beginning of the study last july at four medical centers. All the other 54 have seriously progressive which did not respond to laetrile treatment. These results Moertel said Are about the same that would be expected if the doctors had Given the patients either a Placebo Dummy pills with no effectiveness no treat ment at the results Moertel said Are both decisive and Given the fact that so Many uncured patients have continued to seek out laetrile As a last Hope. But we he added that these results will end the exploitation of desperate cancer patients by some doctors and others who still offer patients laetrile in the . And abroad. Motel reported for the four centres that made the study the famed Mayo where he is director of cancer treat ment memorial Sloan Kettering can cer Centre in new York the univer sity of California at los Angeles and the University of Arizona in Tucson. He made the report to the american society for clinical oncology the coun try s cancer specialists who yesterday opened a four Day meeting Here. Laetrile has been on the scene As a medically unaccepted cancer drug since the 1950s. The trial Moertel said was made with the same kind of laetrile or Amygdalia a derivative of Apricot pits used by most laetrile doctors in the United states and Mexico. In All 164 patients entered the study. Some died of causes unrelated to can cer or left the program. Of the 156 treated for up to eight months Only five showed any improve ment at All for More than two months then they too began getting worse. Among 140 who had any actual Dis Comfort from their cancers before the treatment started Only 26 claimed that even their symptoms improved at any time. And after another 10 weeks Only a fourth of these still said they fell any better. At Dawson House the social workers try to give the future to troubled teen agers who be lost sunny today 20 Clear tonight 2 Friday May 1, 1981 press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets final 200 3cw with supplements for Home delivery 957-o550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 hospitals cutting Back on surgery by Maureen Brosnahan the shortage of anaesthetists in Winnipeg is growing More acute endangering patient safety and forcing some hospitals to Cut Back on surgery says the head of the Manitoba anaesthetist society. Or. Peter Duncan said Grace Hospi Tal has been forced to Cut Back surgery 25 per cent because it is Short three anaesthetists. He says the Hospital May have to close its obstetrics depart ment if the situation does not improve. Duncan head of anaesthesia at Chil Dren s Hospital says he is Short three anaesthetists and will have to Cut Back surgery by 50 per cent next month if there is no change. J my n by he said he has had to give up being 1 the Only full time anaesthetist in the a i by. We can t continue to Cope unless we get adequate Duncan said children s Hospital can run Between four and five operating rooms but the shortage has Cut that to three and it will soon drop to two. Duncan said St. Boniface general Hospital is also Short four anaesthetists and is being forced to handle some cases on a hit and miss basis. See acute Page 4 Bank rate rises again preparing for the worst residents of Belfast Northern Ireland erect a barricade across the Road in the turf Lodge area in preparation for civil disorders expected to follow the death of Ira hunger striker Bobby Sands. Sands condition is said to be deteriorating Ottawa concedes on 1 of 3 Points . Plan As hard to Stop As Happy birthday wish to queen3 Robinette presents Case by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Federal Constitution Al proposal is Legal provincial consent is not required and legality is All that the supreme court of Canada should decide chief Federal counsel j. J. Robinette argued yesterday before the nine justices who will make or break the new Constitution. Part of its legality is that it is a Resolution and not a statute and there fore is As difficult to Stop As a Happy birthday wish to the Queen from parliament he admitted under questioning from Justice Willard Estey. Robinette said the politics or the propriety of the Federal Resolution is for parliament to decide whereas Parlia ment s reference to the court is strictly on a question of legality. Robinette regarded As one of can Ada s Best and most expensive lawyers immediately conceded that prime minister Trudeau s constitutional proposal affects Federal provincial relations Clearing up one of three questions placed before the court by the prov inces. Surprise move but he said the provinces Are All Over the place on the second question of whether by convention provincial consent is required. In a Surprise move earlier yesterday Saskatchewan said Only a reasonable measure of provincial consent is re striking greyhound workers to vote on tentative contract greyhound buses could be Back on the roads by monday if striking Drivers and support staff accept a tentative contract agreement reached yesterday in Calgary negotiators for the Calgary based greyhound bus lines and the Amalga mated transit Union worked out a three year contract offer which could end the nine Day strike by tomorrow night. Frank Smorong chairman of the Winnipeg Branch of local 1374 of the Union said last night the negotiating committee is recommending acceptance of the pact. The local represents 150 Drivers terminal staff mechanics and servicemen. Although few details of the proposed contract Are known Smorong said the company has offered More Money and a Cost of living kick in Union members previously rejected a 27 per cent wage increase Over three years offered by the company. The key Issue in the negotiations has been the management s desire to re move a Cost of living clause from the contract. That s what killed any he said. That s Why we went on Smorong said. But a kick in clause was proposed to the company and i guess they finally went for the kick in clause will allow for a hourly wage increase if the inflation rate is greater than the worker s an Nual salary increase. Picketing of terminals and garages will continue until the ratification votes Are counted. Workers in Winnipeg will vote on the agreement tomorrow. Greyhound a subsidiary of . Based greyhound lines inc., is Canada s largest inter City bus system. The walkout the Calgary based com Pany s first since employees won bar gaining rights in 1947, shut Down operations from Vancouver to Sudbury out., and took More than 400 buses off the Road. Quire for constitutional change. Robinette said if Saskatchewan Law yer Ken Lysyk is Correct then his Case destroys much of that made by Manitoba and other dissenting provinces. Manitoba has argued that Canada was created from provinces Sovereign within their own jurisdiction. Unanimous agreement on matters affecting All provinces is required for constitutional change and consent of the affected province is required on changes affecting Only one province. Robinette said even among the remaining opponent provinces there is disagreement. Newfoundland for example sees agreement from provincial governments As distinct from their Legislatures. Prince Edward Island takes a similar position while Nova Scotia told the court it would go along with whatever a majority of provinces decided Robinette said. Subject to change Robinette also argued that the very nature of a convention As opposed to Law is that it is subject to change. He therefore suggested it is not up to the court to change the nature of Conven Tion by sanctifying it legally. Convention has never been used As the basis for Legal judgments but Only As an Aid in interpreting the Law where the Law was ambiguous he said. But the Federal lawyer s testimony came close to showing the ideological split on the court. He was put under the gun by Justice Ronald Mainland a conservative appointed by former prime minister John Diefenbaker while he received almost no questioning by chief Justice Bora Laskin a Liberal appointed by Trudeau to the top Job despite Mainland s senior Ity. See four Page 4 children s intensive care unit because of the unbearable workload. Further Cut backs As far As patient care goes it s becoming a More precarious he said. It will soon be that we will have to Cut Back even further in the interests of patient he said the shortage is forcing City anaesthetists to work 70 to 80 hours a week. Many he said sleep for a few hours at the Hospital before begin Ning another full Day in surgery. The threat is whenever you have a fatigued he said. We Are frustrated we Are tired physically we Are very concerned about the safety of in All he said City hospitals Are Short 23 anaesthetists and while the provincial Ottawa up the record setting Bank of Canada rate climbed two tenths of a Point to 17.6 per cent yesterday and the chartered Banks immediately bumped their prime rates to 18.5 per cent from 18.25 and 18. But the usual Hue and cry that accompanies the now regular increases were blunted somewhat As members of parliament were on a two week break. Ray Skelly new democratic con Sumer affairs spokesman said the Only groups benefiting from the High rates Are the Banks which recorded 50 and 60 per cent profit increases in the first Quarter of the year and Large corporations which he said Only get bigger As Small businesses go bankrupt. John Crosbie progressive conserva Tive finance critic in new York on a in ruin Uji a government has promised to help pro speaking engagement said the Eov vide incentives to lure others to Mani Ern ment should Cut about billion Toba the situation has not changed. From its billion budget. But he also there s been nothing much More repeated Calls for finance minister than a head nod m terms of govern Allan Maceachen to spend More on ment action he said. We have heard Relief for those hit hardest by the High nothing from the minister rates health minister l. R. Bud Sher he added that the two suggestions Man was out of the City yesterday. His Aren t contradictory. He said Over All Deputy or. George Johnson could not government spending is up 16 per cent be reached for comment. This year when the subsidies on Oil capt. Irene Stickland administrator imports Are included and said there is of Grace Hospital confirmed surgery ample room to save billion and help has been Cut Back. The needy at the same time. S been acute for a Long she there was no comment from the said. We be been just managing Bare government swallowed Wristwatch kept right on ticking Chicago a a watch kept on ticking inside a Man s stomach for More than five months after he Swal Lowed it while being mugged a doctor says. Or. Elliot Duboys a surgical Resi Dent assigned to mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre Long Island n.y., described the incident in a letter in the May 1 Issue of the journal of the american medical association the Man 49, was mugged in new York City and witnesses said he took off his newly purchased watch popped it in his Mouth for safekeeping and swallowed it Duboys wrote. The Man later was admitted to a Hospital for treatment of a psychiatric disorder and when examining a routine set of his abdominal a rays technicians spotted the watch. The Man apparently had Felt no ill effects from eating his watch and throughout his five month stay at the Hospital never complained of any stomach discomfort. He later re fused permission for an operation to remove the watch. Doctors per formed the operation after he was ruled legally incompetent and next of Kin approved surgery. Surgeons removed a self winding Wristwatch with synthetic band and buckle. The Date and time were wrong but the watch kept on ticking. Opting out almost half of the province s radiologists have opted out of medicare. The move will increase their fees by 40 to 50 per Best seats up the Winnipeg jets have announced a hefty increase of per ticket for of the Best seats in the report awaited the report on immigration regulations by a review committee appointed last fall will Likely cite More new Bones doctors have found they can induce the body to form new Index Ann Landers answers. Autos. Bridge business. Classified. Cleversey comics. Crossword. 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