European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                From Page 16 chemotherapy More precisely until they know Hal the cancer is eliminated cat scans also Are used aggressively instead of going in and opening a patient up or a Biopsy More often than not we will use a Needle Biopsy and withdraw some cells or  said Begley thai Way you know what you re dealing with and can draw a Road map Tor a surgeon it surgery is necessary " for various Lor sol cancer surgery is still the Standard treatment but Iho Altitude toward How much of a diseased Organ must be removed has changed markedly malignant born a tutors Lor example Are now trebled v the conservative surgery to called because in conserves More to Nguc often it consists of a Lumpectomy in  the tumor is removed irom the breast  by radiation treatment rather than the More disfiguring Radical Mastectomy common a decade ago doctors prodded by advocates discovered that the More   m  Iho Hoe breast and underlying Muscles  removed was no More successful in caving lives and was considerably More a to Gunny and psychologically  similar advances have been made in the treatment of prostate cancer ultrasound now defects the cancer earlier before malignant cells have had a Chance to spread and when the tumor is Likely to be Small even the need Lor open heart surgery has been greatly reduced because of new techniques nearly 20 years ago. Surgeons devised a new operation Lof people Al High risk of a heart attack in these a aliens who experienced severe Chest pains one or More of their blood vessels was blocked preventing the flow of blood to the heart surgeons bypassed the blocked blood vessels and rerouted blood to the heart in 1987. 581.000 americans had open heart surgery according to the american heart association Al an average Cost of $35.000 per operation according to the health care financing administration which runs medicare today there Are alternatives for some patients cardiologists can now easily reach the Interior of the heart with Long thin tubes treating gallstones without surgery Lilholt rippers first used to treat kidney stones use spark plug Type electrodes to generate hundreds of Shock Waves. In new models Waves Are transmitted through a water Cushion and pass through soft tissues until they hit a gallstone. To Monitor shows position of gallstone. Power source generates Shock wave. Adjustable Arm holds ultrasound scanner. The Waves break the gallstones into fragments thai can pass through ducts into intestine. Ultrasound readings find Stone Monitor displays location equipment can be shifted to keep patient at proper distance. Called catheters that can be slipped through blood vessels by injecting Dye through the tube while an a Ray beam projects an image on a to screen physicians can determine whether the coronary arteries Are dangerously narrowed. If they Are a second Catheter can be slipped through the first to place a balloon in the Middle of the narrowed artery. Inflating the balloon crushes the obstruction restoring Normal blood Low and eliminating the need to crack the Chest open and perform a bypass operation this Remote control surgery also has been used to restore Normal function to valves and to plug holes in the Walls that separate heart Chambers. While sophisticated technology increasingly allows doctors to heal without cutting the move away from extensive surgery has been driven in part by the growing concern about the Cost of health care Apple  new study on risk of breast cancer associated Pressw Omen who carry their weight around the Middle Are More Al risk for developing breast cancer than Whoso who bulge at the hips and thighs according to a just published study the so called Apple is Pear study was conducted by or David Schapira an associate professor who Heads cancer prevention Ai ii  to lilt cancer Center & re search Institute at the University of South Florida it s not How much weight you have on your Hod but where you have it snid Schapiro whose findings were published in the annals of internal Medicine researchers in St Louis reported Hal cholesterol Levels Are closely linked with the Way people carry their fat reporting it is healthier to be shaped like a Pear than an Apple the Florida study showed women with fat Over the Slomach and abdominal area Are at six limes the risk of developing breast cancer than those with lat deposits lower on the body Schapira called women with upper body male like fat patterns apples and women with traditional lower body lat  the team studied 216 breast cancer patients diagnosed Between August 1987 and june 1988 and 432 healthy women they ranged in age from 25 to 83 breast cancer patients had significantly greater deposits of upper body fat in several key body Sites plus greater Waist to hip and Abdomen to High comparison ratios researchers found the it Offitt team thinks that upper body fat leads to breast cancer because it disturbs the hormonal system breast cancer has been linked to obesity in previous studies cancer experts said but this study also looked Al Normal weight woman with breast cancer the study reported in the new England journal of Medicine showed people with fat waists have lower Levels of Hal cholesterol the Good  believed to protect against heart disease. That study could help explain Why women have lower Rales of heart disease than men researchers said Znuj Cal of co Uja. Stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores in to adj pm l in 10 a Palfi i Mutko incr 100 to Tnp hip Schulk Cand run Doc map acc a Black history month discount King remembered is a stars and stripes Black literature title discounted 25% during february s Black history month. You la save $2 off the original cover Price of $7.95 for this extraordinary tribute to one of the most important leaders of our time and an eyewitness account of one of the most turbulent eras in american life. The discounted Price for King remembered a Only $5.95 at a stars and stripes Bookstore near you. Other titles discounted 25% off or More during Black history month include the autobiography of Malcolm a the 1990 Black history Calendar and before the Mayflower a history of Black America. Stars and stripes bookstores Are Well stocked with magazines paperbacks and hardcover Cdo o tuesday february 13, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 17