European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mammograms a must brain cancer mortality an alarming surge d08th$ Central is Roos system cancers predominantly Turose of the brain have increased especially among older people. In one study of six countries deaths per 100,000 people increased As much As 200 percent among men 6s to 74 years old. 25 Japan 25 a France 0 g 87, 1968 -07 1068. 25 England 20js--�? 20- 1968 source Amr can journal  Medicine 0 �87 1968 0 -87 1968 not cancer deaths soar by Natalie Angier new York times Ancer deaths among people 55 and. Older Are climbing steeply and steadily. The increases Are occurring in All six countries Analysed in a new study the United states Japan and four european nations. The report said that while the rates of a few cancers such As stomach and lung cancer in men had been dropping for those Over 55 in the last 20 years Overall cancer mortality had soared led by rises in tutors of the brain breast kidney skin Lymphatic system and Bone marrow. Quot the changes in Many types of cancer Are so dramatic and rapid that they cannot be ignored Quot said or. Devra Lee Davis a professor at the mount Sinai medical Center in new York. She is the main author of the report published in the lancet the British journal. Quot they May offer us vital opportunities for cancer  Davis s collaborators on the report include or. John Fox director of the Britain s census office and or. Alan Lopez director of the world health organizations global statistics office. Some experts said that much information presented in the report was familiar to epidemiologists and that environmental and dietary explanations offered in the paper for the apparent increases were speculative and vague. Quot this is a cursory overview Quot said or. Edward j. Sondik Deputy director of the division of cancer prevention and control at the National cancer Institute in Bethesda my. Quot the statistics Here Are Well known. I Don t think it s telling us anything really  there is a continuing debate Over whether emerging increases in cancer rates represent an actual climb or Are a result of better diagnosis. Davis responded to the criticism by saying that whether or not the statistics were known to a handful of specialists they were not widely known to the Public and deserved to be the subject of Broad discussion. The report worked from an examination of death certificate data from the six countries which included France West Germany and Italy and England and Wales in Britain. It combined those results with statistics provided by doctors worldwide. Davis said that while cancer rates varied widely for the different countries tumor types and age groups a few patterns stood out. She said that among people 65 and Over in All countries in the study the rates of brain cancer and multiple myeloma a cancer of the Bone marrow increased by 50 percent to 600 percent from 1968 to 1988, depending on the country. In that period she said kidney cancer non Hodgkin a Lymphoma and breast cancer also increased 10 to 50 percent for people 65 and Over in All seven countries. By Jane e. Brody new York times the incidence of breast cancer is rising among american women. One woman in 10 will eventually get this disease up from one in 11 just four years ago. The disease is the most common life threatening cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in american women. This year it will strike 150,000 women and claim 44,000 lives. Lacking a cure or a Clear Cut Way to prevent breast cancer specialists Are urging women to take advantage of the one measure they know can reduce deaths from it mammography. When this specially designed a Ray of the breast is properly performed and correctly interpreted it can often pick up very tiny highly curable cancers that have not yet formed a Lump that can be detected by touch. For the earliest cancers detectable by mammography the cure rate exceeds 90 percent. Some experts estimate that if women followed current mammography guidelines which have been endorsed by 11 major health organizations deaths from breast cancer could be Cut at least 30 percent. Under these guidelines women age 40 to 49 Are urged to have a Mammogram every year or two and women 50 and older Are urged to have one annually. For women from 35 to 39, a single exam is recommended As a Baseline for use As a comparison with results of a rays after age 40. But All is not sanguine with screening mammography which would be applied to millions of ostensibly healthy women. Women with suspicious symptoms in their breasts Are Given diagnostic mammograms which Are More elaborate than the two View a rays taken when symptom free women go through a routine screening. Fewer than 40 percent of american women Over age 40 have Ever had a Mammogram and Only a relative handful of women have one annually. When women Are asked in surveys Why they do not have such tests two answers predominate they see no need for a Mammogram presumably because they have no symptoms or family history of the disease and their physicians never advised them to have one. 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