C4-Sunday News, October 26, 1980 Cure years away ATLANTA (UPI) - Although alternatives to complete mastectomy have existed for years, medical researchers disagree on which treatment offers the best hope for survival from breast cancer full or partial mastectomy, chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Breast cancer specialists were among some 12,000 doctors from the - United States and 65 other countries attending the 66th annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. F.R.C. Johnstone of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver estimated only 12 per cent of all women treated in the next year will benefit from conventional breast surgery or removal of the entire breast and surrounding lymphatic tissue. But Dr. Auram Cooperman of New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Ho- spital argued that partial mastectomies have resulted in a 10-15 per cent increase in the survival rate in the last 10 years. Dr. Richard D. Marks Jr. of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston defended radiation treat™ ment, saying “the public is entitled to know that results can be achieved through radiation therapy.” The scentists agreed no cure for breast cancer may be developed for years because very little is actually known about the illness. The experts also said there are still problems getting people to act promptly when Symptoms appear, even though early diagnosis has helped improve = survival chances., Despite public promotion of symptoms and treatment, breast cancer is appearing more frequently in women in their teens and early twenties, while inoperable breast cancer patients “represent about 10 per cent of all the patients we see,” Dr. Alfred Fracchia said. “This is a chronic disease,” said Dr. Guy F. Robbins, a colleague of Fracchia's at New York’s famed Sloan-Kettering Institute. . “The sooner we can get people to come in with minimal aspects of the disease that are demon- strable,” Robbins said, “the better off we are. And then we'll be able to come up with the chemicals to stamp out breast cancer.” Cooperman said researchers have been frustrated in their search for a breast cancer cure because “we have no knowledge of the primary, underlying pathology of the disease.” Heredity and diet are key factors, the doctors agreed, - but until scientists can identify what causes breast cancer and then = study treatments and survival rates of the next 20 to 30 years, a cure will continue to elude them. “It’s hard to determine what role diet plays in breast cancer in the United States, because diets here are so different,” Johnstone said. But the Japanese — for whom the incidence of breast cancer is expected to equal that in Caucasians by 1986 — blame increasing breast cancer cases on high- protein and fat intakes, said Fracchia. Marrow transplants saving lives NEW YORK (UPI) Transplants of blood- forming bone marrow are saving lives of some leukemia patients for whom chemotherapy has failed and doctors now are trying a variety of the process for some other cancers, a Seattle specialist reported Wednesday. For leukemia victims, the technique replaces bone marrow destroyed by massive leukemia-killing doses of drugs or radiation with healthy marrow from a compatible donor, often a sibling. Dr. E. 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