European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday november 28.1968 experimental blood test appears to detect cancer Boston full scientists reported wednesday the development of i High tech blood Tat hut teems to select wide variety of cancers perhaps Oit eting thefil accurate Early warning Lei Kern for Many forms of the disease. Although the Tui experiments test cannot Tell what kind or malignancy May be involved it apparently could be Able to Alert doctors to touch for Tut non i their earliest most treatable stages. Early detection ii the key Tor effectively treating most cancers. The american cancer society estimate 164,000 americans who will die of cancer this Yea probably could have been saved by earlier diagnosis and treatment. The Tat could also potentially be used Tot wide spread cancer screening and to enable doctors to deter mine whether cancer therapies have been effective avoiding unnecessary followup radiation and chemo therapy treatments. Bui the researchers at Beth Israel Hospital who developed the test cautioned their results Are preliminary and must be confirmed with larger studies. Nevertheless they said the test was More than 90 percent accurate in a study involving 331 people. The word cancer now has a fairly emotional con tent to it especially when it s attached to a new development like this said Eric Fossil b radiologist who headed the research team. This is a preliminary but promising set of experiments that needs considerably More testing said Fos Sci whose research was published in the new England journal of Medicine Frank Rauscher jr., an american cancer society vice president and former director of the government s National cancer Institute said the results Wen prom Ising. " want to be conservative about this he said in Telephone interview but the fact is they have come up with something we Haven t teen before. The lest which could not be available widely for a least two Yean involves a Proem known As a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Blood is placed in a device that produces a magnetic Field and radio signals. A computer analyses signals from fat containing component of the blood known a lipoproteins and produces Spectra similar to those used to measure radio frequencies. The difference Between people with cancer an healthy patients appears to be How the lipoproteins Are arranged but researchers were Uncertain exactly Why that would differ for cancer patients. While the test produced false positives for pregnant women and men suffering from a common inflammation of he prostate it accurately spotted various types of cancers including leukaemia and cancer of the breast Colon and lung. We can do this with relatively High accuracy. Com pared to any other method thut s being used right now it s very High accuracy said Fossel at a Newt Confer ence. The test cannot however determine the location  cancer and researchers Are Uncertain How Small a tumor they will be Able to pick up. Cancer cases expected to Rise Boston Dpi about s million living Ameri cans have or have had cancer and the number can be expected to nearly double by the year 2030, govern ment researchers said wednesday. This gives us an estimate of How Many people there Are who have been touched by cancer said or Allen Feldinan who headed a study on the prevalence of cancer at the National cancer Institute in Bethesda my. A Tot of he emphasis has rightfully been on breakthroughs in cancer treatment said Feldman whose study was published in the new England journal of Medicine. This show it s also important to look at the consequences of the treatment to look Al the survivors to see How they Are coping endearing Decoy ten duct win use officer rms so Gand holds tin a to fled Attr the wildlife departs has been Taf a Coy to trap to Wal  Hatus been muted recited y7 to attn to Hattaw u a the study based on statistics from a registry of cancer cases in Connecticut confirmed that cancer is a disease that primarily affects the  prevalence of cancer among those below age 30 was 0,1 percent compared to 12 percent of men and11 percent of women overage 70. Because the population is aging the number of peo ple alive in the United states who have or have had cancer can be expected to climb to 6.2 million in the year 2000 and 9.6 million by 2030, Feldman said. While the most common form of cancer among Menis lung cancer the most prevalent form is prostate cancer because of the High death rate among lung can cer patients. For women breast cancer is the most prevalent. Houston police hiring questioned Houston a the Houston police department has hired officers who admitted using drugs or commit Ting crimes such As theft and aggravated assault the hous ton Post reported Ina copyright Story wednesday. Houston police Al of hired officers who had Bee fired by other agencies for serious misconduct the newspaper  of office who had quiet Mable Back grounds were hired Between 1977 and 1984, and most remain according to records the port studied. One woman had a record of thefts at a retail store when the applied to become an officer in 1976, the newspaper said. She a fired three Yean later when the allegedly walked out of a Houston store clutching a pair of lacks she bad not paid for the Post  records show another officer had inquired about the number of Tuanqu Slizen it would take to trick a poly graph exam before his  test according to the Post he later was fired for several alleged incidents of attempted theft the newspaper said. Police chief Lee Brown said a department task Force Isnow examining whether its hiring criteria Are sufficient he Ruffi of to ht11lllt particular cases with the pos Lbrown was out of his office wednesday and his assistants did not mum Calls from the associated  capt . Leua said his recruiting division which was disbanded earlier this year had been aware of suspicious behaviour by some past recruits. It does t happen that often but the other thing Tobe very truthful is we Don t expect to get an applicant in that door. Who has not smoked marijuana or who Haa not taken tora ething that did not belong to them at some time in their life.,. A v u. Weinberger pct Mir trip to Europe Morocco Washington Ati defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger will travel to Europe Ana Morocco Early next month the White House announced wednesday. Weinberger will visit France from dec 1-3and will meet with thai nation s defense minister in Paris. He will then travel to Brussels Bel Gium for a meeting of the nato defense plan Ning committee on dec. 4-3, while House spokesman Larry Speakes said. The Secretary will then travel la Morocco for session with King Hassan ii and will conclude his european visit with consultations in England with the British defense minister before return ing to the United Stales dec. 9, Speakes said. Group of senior citizens victims of big trip off brigant1ne, no. A a 6s-year-Odvolunteer collected $s,07s from a group of senior citizens for a trip to the Catskill then vanished Wilh Only a note of apology police said. The senior citizen knew something was wrong when Ruth Hadfield and the bus did t show up sunday. I Call it the big trip off said Theresa Shoriak. If they had stolen a to from me would t feel so bad. Everyone went Over there sunday morning and sat there like fools with All our suitcases lined up on the  Hadfield. Who worked for the Brigantine civic Center s senior citizens nutrition program collected 1175 from each of the 29 participants said police Cape Michael t. Bums. Bus and hotel reservations were made but were can celeb a week ago Burns said. On tuesday the group received a letter from Hadfield apologizing you will hear what happened to me shortly and maybe you will understand she wrote adding she hoped to repay the senior citizen someday. Astronomers say object pulled into Black Hole Columbus Ohio Cupi two astronomers reported wednesday discovering what May be the first evidence that an object possibly part of a Star was sucked into a. Mack Hole one of the most intriguing objects in the uni verse. Bradley Peterson and Gary j. Feriand associate professors of astronomy at Ohio slate University said their observations indicate an abject about the size of our Sun was torn apart by a huge Black Hole at the Center of a Galaxy. A Small fraction of the object totalling a few dozen times More mass than that of Earth apparently was drawn into the Black Hole a Sta that has collapsed into a tremendously dense mass Wilh Gravity to Strong that not even Light can escape tit grasp. Judge orders soviet funds seized to pay libel award new York up in an unprecedented Legal move More loan 1450,000 has been seized from a soviet Bank account to satisfy a libel judgment against the Sovol Union and in favor Ofa businessman from Palo Alto Calif. It was revealed wednesday thai the soviet funds had been attached at Bank of America s International Branch in new York by order of Federal magistrate in los Angeles to satisfy a 1456,413 libel judgment against the soviet news paper Izvestia which had called Raphael Grego Rian a spy. Gregorian 36, russian bom owner of califor Nia International Trade corp., Laid hit f 10 Mil lion a year medical Supply bus lieu Whf destroyed in 1984 when i Vatu published an article implying he was a spy. He was  the soviet Union where Omott w nil business was conducted