AIS - Wednesday, February 3, 1982 - North Shore News EEE community round up DEALING WITH CANCER vy Breast X-rays said safe for women over 30 By ROBERT LEGGE The leading cause of death for Canadian women bet- ween 35 and 54 years is breast cancer. Dr. Anthony Miller, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Breast Screening Study said recently that 3,300 women die of it every year in this country. . The NCI's screening program is currently recruiting women who are aged 40 to 59 years in a test see if a form of breast x- yay\ (mammography) can detect breast tumours earlier - and whether earlier detection will improve the cure rate. However, some doctors and women have expressed fear that the x- rays used for detection might themselves trigger breast cancer. At the 50th annual meeting of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Miller reported on a Study of women who had received much higher doses of x-ray radiation during examinations for tuber- culosis 40 to 50 years ago. “Women who were first “Beau” ts a pure bred miniature Poodle with a poor clip, so he is busy growing in a new coat and he needs a home. Please phone Dorts Orr, 987-9015. save 15% - 30% recliners Swivel rockers with neater and/or vibrator, leather or cloth, over 15 models to choose from °199 °599 West Van Furniture ts 1395 Marine Dr., W.V. 922-1204 | exposed to fluoroscopy (a form of x-ray cxamination) in their 30’s and 40's (and those who were older) showed no increased risk of death from breast cancer compared with unexposed women,” he stated. However, Dr. Miller also reported that women ex- posed to fluoroscopy who were between the ages of 10 and 29 (40 to 50 years ago) had up to twice the risk of dying from breast cancer than the unexposed. Dr. Miller went on to point out that the radiation dose given to women during those examinations for tuber- culosis 40 to 50 years ago ranged from 20 to 2,000 rads (a rad is a measurement of radiation) compared to only one rad given to women in the NCI screening program. Mammography screening Zero Interest Pinancang at Times Square TI MES SQUARE on the park [dawn Tye con as conducted by the National Cancer Institute is not only safe for women over 30, but has proven to pick-up breast cancers anywhere from two to four years before they would have been detected otherwise. If you would like to enlist in the National Breast Screening Study, ask your family doctor for further infor- mation. Snoring, if not a medical problem, is at the least a mental-health problem - for the spouses of snorers. Thus far, this irritating problem - to which those afflicted will seldom admit - has resisted all attacks from medical science. The British Medical Journal notes that physicians who write letters to the Journal of the American Medical Association (How authoritative can you get?) have returned in desperation to an old remedy. The objec- tive of this therapy is to prevent the snore patient from laying on his/her back. How? Sew a large glass marble or half a rubber ball into his/her pyjamas/night- gown between the shoulder blades. And if no garment is PERRAULT, SMYTH & COMPANY Certified General Accountants Bookkeeping & Accounting Auditing Income Tax Consulting Management Consulting 102 - 1975 Lonsdale Avenue North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2K3 987-8101 Nationally: EVANCIC, PYPER, PERRAULT, BARCLAY & DILLON DAON’s Times Square — overlooking Central Park in Bumaby — is now available to prospective buyers through a new approach: DAON offers Vancouver the unique plan now gaining popularity in North America: Zero - Interest Financing. Let it work as a new approach for you — when it comes to owning a fine Times Square 1 bedroom, | bedroom plus den, 2 bedroom suite. It works simply and it works well: ¢ 25% Down Payment 100% of payments apply only to pnncipal five year payment schedule, with clear tithe in five years Times Square pnces still start in the low O's Consider these special Times Square features ¢ concrete hi nse © all suites have in suite storage and laundry hook ups © outstanding views ¢ many, many destrable amenites on Patterson between Kingsway and lmpenal sales Office « apart Moriday through Sunday Opn tel 440 4/711 Brian Acres rw Joohiny Wetss D | BY | Daon Development © orporation A FIRST FOR VANCOUVER Ov 0 FINANCING Times Square offers zero-interest plan Consider this plan. another way to own a place called home ID AQON introduces it to Vancouver,