European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Mitun Iarsen product won t Watrt off in Walar end will i fit for 12 hours. Non Greasy Long lasting sunscreen associated Pressa dry powder made of microscopic sponges should help people avoid skin cancer by providing a goo free once a Day Way to put on sunscreen researchers Aey. The new product which developers say will be on the marital in a year or so lasts 12 hours won t come off in Waier and eliminates the Greasy coating that makes regular sunscreen a nuisance. It s got important possibilities.1 said or. Albert m. Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania. Anything we can do to get people to protect themselves against sunlight is  a said Many people Are needlessly exposing themselves to skin cancer simply because they can t stand sunscreen hat is Funky Greasy  with the new product nobody will say i won t use this because it s too oily " the new approach was developed by advanced polymer systems of Redwood City and was demonstrated recently at a meeting of the american cancer society. Expo ure to Sunshine increases the Odds of getting skin cancer. More than 500,000 people each year get skin cancer and most cases Are easily curable basal or squamous cell cancers. President and Nancy Reagan and vice president George Bush All have had basal cell cancer the most common and most curable Type but about 26,000 americans get malignant Melanoma a dangerous tumor that s fatal if allowed to spread. Advanced polymer s research director chemist Sergio nacht said the secret to the new sunscreen is tiny plastic sponges. These Are spheres about 1b one hundredths of an Inch across. When magnified 5,000 limes they look something like Golf balls each one is covered with �50,000 Little pores. The pores of just one sponge if Laid Back to Back would measure 10 feet Long. The sponges Are soaked with liquid Sun screen which is slowly released during the Day As people move about. The Mere movement of Muscles will lend to squeeze the tiny sponges allowing the sunscreen to ooze out said Nacho. When applied to the skin in powder lorm the sunscreen quickly disappears leaving the skin feeling dry but slightly Slippery. Nacho said he powder could be added to Many liquids so this form of sunscreen could become a part of body creams Eye makeup and aftershave lotion among Oiler cosmetics. The powder does t come off if people swim although soap will remove it when they Bathe. We have the technology to entrap sunscreen to put ii on top of the skin and to maintain it for protracted periods of time and most importantly to formulate it into a very acceptable product thai will be Cosine locally adequate for children and adults nacht said. He said negotiations Are under Way for cosmetic companies to produce sunscreens in the new form. In a separate report. Or. Darren s. Rigel of Mew York University medical Center said the Melanoma rate is rising. A said he disease takes Many years to develop and the jump probably results from people s increased Sun exposure during the 1950s and 1960s, people wanted to look tanned and Beautiful he said hopefully people Are becoming More aware and we will see a  he said that currently one in 135 americans will get Melanoma a Type of tumor some time during their lives. By the year 2000, he predicted that this would increase to one in 90, he also noted thai people who have unusual moles known As dysplastic Nevi Are at substantially increased risk of Melanoma. These moles Are often oddly shaped unevenly coloured and have indistinct edges. Promising treatment in brain tutors by Daniel q. Haney associated Pressa new form of therapy is providing dope Tor the first time Lor victims or the most common lorm of brain cancer which until now has been quickly and Relone Rossly fatal researcher says. Among the 60 patients who have received the experimental therapy so far is Dick hawser who resigned As manager of the Kansas City royals baseball team this year after attempting a comeback following surgery doctors Are unsure whether they have cured anyone with the new approach but some of their patients Are still alive Long after Euch victims usually die the patients were treated at an advanced Slage of their disease when the expected survival is 11 weeks. Bui some Are apparently free of disease More than two years later. The therapy uses a newly developed technique o rally the body s own immune defences to fight cancer. In this ease it s being used to attack brain tutors called gliomas. About 15,000 new cases of malignant brain tutors occur in the United slates each year and 70 percent of them Are gliomas. Or Deane Brunson Jacques and colleagues began administering the treatment in february 19b5 at the Huntington medical research institutes in Pasadena Calif. He described his results Al a meeting or the american cancer society recently. It s not a Panacea he said. It s highly experimental. But in a disease that s heretofore been 100 percent fatal at least Lor the first time there s some Hope Lor these  the approach called adoptive immunotherapy uses the patient s own White blood cells As the primary assault against cancer. The White celts Are separated from the blood and grown for 10 Days in interleukin-2. One of the body s natural chemical weapons against disease. This seems to stimulate he White Calls to fight the cancer Al of the patients so far have jailed to respond to surgery and radiation. When their cancers recur surgeons remove As much of the tutors As they can then fill up the resulting cavity with a mixture of the activated while cells and blood plasma. Jacques said several of the patients have continued to improve Long alter the treatment. On cat scans a Standard diagnostic test Here is often no sign or their cancer. However this does not mean they Are cured. I Don t know what the natural history of this disease is since people Don t live this Long with this form of cancer Jacques said. One Young Man recurred Over two years later when i thou Flohl he was Over the  of the 60 patients treated 16 have died. He said everyone else is alive and Well with followup times ranging from a week to 26 months. Typically people with gliomas live just under a year irom the time hair disease is first spotted and they. Survive 14 weeks from the Lime of recurrence of their disease which was when these people were treated. Jacques said patients chances seem to be besi if most of their tumor can be removed in the Case of hawser the royals manager he said unfortunately there was a Tot of Luxor left in his speech area so we had to be Lees than aggressive. But so tar he s doing very Well and in essentially asymptomatic Al his Point lean say l think this will buy him some time. Whether or not it cures him i can t Tell  tuesday. March 31, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 17