Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1tj gift Flieg free october 1985 Pion therapy of funds ends Experiment in nuclear blasting of tutors Ion an experimental cancer Radia Tion was inst it cited a decade ago in new Mexico los Alamos National los where the first atomic bomb was was a fitting location for the Tot As the patients there were Pion therapy would Ceatise tiny nuclear explosions to occur in their Short for Are particles that reside in the nucleus of they Are not easy to but los Alamos has the equipment in the world for doing a machine generates a Stream of another atomic Are shuttled into a half mile where electric cur rents race them Back and fourth Urt til they reach speeds approaching the Speed of slam into Graphite protons then slam into smashing atoms electromagnetic Fields snare the pions and for future among the atoms the Pion has the unusual property holding on most of its Energy until it stops when it its Energy is released in a the path of a Pion on a photographic plate looks like a carved line with a Star at the in the new pions Are beamed into a patients the intensity of the beam is set so that the and Bones slow the pions Down until they come to rest in a there they ripping tumor cells these Are the tiny nuclear explosions the patients at los Alamos were told Pion therapy would seem Superior to conventional radiation when the nor mall used Gamma and rays Are beamed to hit and destroy healthy tissue in front of an behind the target also is 1 in some where the cancer is More resistant y to radiation than Normal or where the tumor is connected to an Organ among radiation sen Stive conventional treat ment is especially on other pass through tissue and organs with relatively Little bad Only when they Stop do they do their dirty the Pion therapy project was an Experiment to see the new treatment was it had never been performed be funds were provided by the National cancer nuclear age Lewis Rothlein soon the patients those selected had Large tutors for the most were in remove Able by they All had relatively slim chances of survival with conventional knew and for most of it happened very the period of time Between diagnosis and arrival averaged one some were at the facility two Days after they found out they had the ensuing years saw a Parade of each of whom sat for 5to35 minute sessions before machines that beamed pions into their or wherever their tutors happened to clinicians compared results of Pion ther apy with conventional preliminary figures were favor through not greatly the therapy want easy to per form As it had appeared on withdrew funds in the National cancer Institute withdrew its an Institute spokesperson told that in their the program didst show enough Promise to justify the expense an Extension would have there was Only so much Money to go enough had been and Many new projects were in with no the program treatment had been Given to 180 forty still Robert chairman of radiology at the University of new is in charge of tying up the projects Loose he told me he Felt the funds were withdrawn prematurely that Given extra More reasoned judgments could have been made about the future of Pion the program had Mosely said and added it was atrophied in a facility in British and another in Switzerland still investigate Pion As for the one in los it is presently being used for University level physics Lewis Rothlein syndicated column on scientific and political issues in the nuclear Finkl appears sundays in the free comparing nuclear weapons soviet Union has about weapons put of nut tour weapons France has 16 subs each with 16 18 single warhead land based missiles and 32 Mirage i bombers which can carry nuclear weapons United states also has about nuclear including about weapons Moscow denies plan for soviet Star wars Moscow a the official Tass news Agency yesterday denied assertions that the soviet Union is working on its own so called Star wars plan and claimed Washington is trying to divert attention from soviet peace Tass was reacting to an official document released Friday in Washington that said the soviet strategy Calls for Superior offensive forces capable of executing a successful first tie document also said there was evidence the soviet Union has engaged in research into advanced radar and laser technology capable of becoming parts of a missile de Fence system that would violate the iffy missile apm murky Stream a commentary under the head a murky Stream from Wash Tass military analyst Vlad Rorr wrote the soviet Union is not creating space strike weapons and an abm defence the territory of the country and has never tried to dispute the to inventing St the it is consistently earning out for prevent Steps to militarize outer and is calling on the United states to formalize this in a trea the Reagan administration said Friday that the soviets have been engaged in an ambitious research and deployment the impression that the Only strategic defence program is the american one is an impression that the soviets have attempted to Cre said Richard assistant defence Secretary for International Security a state and defence department study said the soviet unions laser program in its missile defence Effort is much larger than efforts and involves Over scientists and engineers and More than half a dozen major research and develop ment facilities and test on soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev said of the pro Gram As Long As the instigators of this Enterprise stubbornly continue Down the perilous path that they have the world will face a Tough Moscow has said a new superpower arms control agreement cannot be reached unless the United slates drops Star As he arrived in president Reagan said they can go on saying it drop Star wars but i aint Gonna do r the the ship Greenpeace and a Sailboat joint flotilla to protest French nuclear testing i i i la i i v i Australia protests tests Canberra spa while a Flo Tilla of protest vessels headed for the Auroroa atoll in the South pacify the australian government yesterday condemned Frances nuclear test there As Al outrage and affront to the the australian representative at the United Richard delivered Canberra latest protest against the tests before the in general the foreign ministry Here although a 1983 investigation by scientists from new zealand and Australia found that the under ground tests caused no health dam age to the regions for eign minister William Hayden said that after close examination of the it was concluded that harm Ful atomic waste from Auroroa would result in Lon term geological the ship Greenpeace arrived in new zealand and Gerd a spokesman for the environmentalist group said that its protest was not aimed at producing a phys ical confrontation with France but a confrontation of wanted re Eleanor died May in the matter of criminal Gross honest lawyer is required to pursue wrongful death action and prefer criminal malpractice refer to Legal medical March 1978 Wade Naye Nouri 1978 2 67 there Are some occurrences even to a speak of negligence without the confirmation of expert 1 the argument passes Over the fact that medical science has succeeded to a considerable extent in identifying deviations from Normal physiological behaviour where the risks of various complications arising out of certain procedures can often be expressed in terms of 2 1 Ellen Legal liability of doctors and hospitals in second Toronto the Carswell company 2 Ellen medical treatise we that if the patient is physically and neurologically in Good surgery should usually be performed almost immediately in order to avoid the risk of re bleeding or by following this we have had satisfactory results in 83 per cent of our favourable risk cases and a mortality of Only 3 per delays have Cost the lives of several patients and died of recurrent Haemorrhage five to eight Days after the presenting 3 medical treatise sub arachnoid this headache is characterized principally by its severity and abrupt because the aneurysm is in the sub arachnoid focal findings Are nausea and vomiting Are and there May be a Low Grade the pain of this headache is initially due to displacement of although the newer it scanners will detect most sub arachnoid Many of the older models missed a significant number of the definitive Means of making this diagnosis remains the Lumbar the definitive finding is bloody 4 medical treatise except some sub arachnoid the it scan is usually the scan May not visualize some vascular but it is indicated prior to 5 medical treatise suspicion of Sah should increase if the patient recalls a intense often described As the most painful Ever and much different from prior a first migraine headache May be due to an because of the precipitous patients often remember minute details of the circumstances of the any headache followed by transient loss of consciousness should be suspected to have been caused by an with it scans available in More this study can usually be done before Lumbar if a physician does not have a it scan available and if he is reluctant to perform a Lumbar he should Transfer the patient to a medical Center if the patients condition 6 3 Lawrence Gordon aneurysms and arteriovenous anomalies of the new York Hoeber medical Harper 4 Karen management of headache in the emergency topics in emergency Aspen systems 5 Karen 6 Harold Pitfalls in the recognition of sub arachnoid journal american medical August in a team from the Osgoode Hall Law school circulated a medical Legal questionnaire to Ontario one of the questions asked concerned the physicians response if he were to witness some grossly negligent conduct by another doctor and that doctor were sued by his patient because of of the 1835 per cent claimed they would refuse to disclose the information or to cooperate even if asked per cent declared they would disclose the information in court if but Only if subpoenaed while per cent thought they would refuse to disclose the information in court even if on the basis of this do you believe there is a conspiracy of silence 7 7 Cecil Allen Canadian tort seventh Toronto Butterworth the Issue concerns Public health care and in this would appreciate moral Contact Dee Jay Terlecki 103 233 Booth drive Manitoba r3j 3m4 Canada 204 8324945 ;