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Checkups help curb cancer
By ELEANOR B.
RODGERSON, M.D.
Copley News Service
Q. Are yearly checkups all
that good? My mother went to
the doctor for years, regular
ly, and a few months ago they
found a cancer of the uterus.
A. If women could be immu
nized against cancer — like is
done with whooping cough,
diphtheria, and polio — we
would do better in preventing
it.
There is comfort in knowing
that your mother’s cancer
was found early, probably be
fore she had many symptoms.
The best means of cancer pre
vention we have is early diag
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nosis and treatment. Cures
are then possible in a larger
percentage of cases. Certain
ly, there will be better control
of undesirable complications.
Now, the important thing
for your mother is treatment
and I am sure that has al
ready been started. It is best
to be treated by a doctor who
has training and experience in
cancer therapy. Surgery, ra
diology (X-ray), and chemo
therapy (chemical combina
tions that destroy cancer tis
sue) have made great ad
vances in the last few years. A
new specialist has come to the
fore, the gynecological on
cologist, the female-type-can
cer specialist. But, fortunate
ly, when cases are diagnosed
early — because women do
not neglect themselves and
get periodic examinations —
all these specialists will be
necessary only for those with
advanced and unusual le
sions.
Early detection means good
results. Advanced cases re
quire massive efforts at great
expense and may produce
only mediocre results.
Q. What effect does flying
have on menstruation?
A. It has been common
knowledge that changes in al
titude and climate may affect
some women’s menstrual pe
riods — their occurrence, the
amount of flow, the discom
fort, etc.
Now, from West Germany,
comes a report that the first
hours of a high-altitude flight
are the worst — heavier flow
and increased irritability.
Various symptoms occurred
in 48 per cent of the women
crew members interviewed.
Q. How often should I be re
examined after I have been
treated for gonorrhea?
A. Your doctor will expect
you to return in one or two
weeks for repeat cultures
from your cervix and vagina.
A further checkup in a month
would be a good idea. Then
you are undoubtedly getting
Pap smears every six months
to a year and you could ask
your doctor to repeat gonor
rheal cultures at the same
time, although these would
probably be done without your
asking.
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He left a clue
INDIO, Calif. (UPI) -
Riverside County sheriff’s depu
ties came up with a clue
Wednesday as to how a
prisoner, handcuffed and
chained to several others,
escaped from the courthouse.
John V. Radogna, 27, was due
to be sentenced on a robbery
conviction but when his name
was called, he was absent.
A sheriff’s spokesman report
ed a search of his cell turned
up a book by the celebrated
oldtime escape artist Houdini.
“The pages on handcuffs
were dogeared,” said the
spokesman.
Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 18,1974
Kennedy faces
agonizing choice
By Michael Balfe Howard
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The author,
managing editor ol The Rocky
Mountain News, of Denver, spoke
with Senator Kennedy during his
family's recent skiing vacation in
Colorado.)
DENVER - (NEA) -
There he was, the front-run
ner telling his youngest son,
Patrick, that, “No" he
couldn't play darts, al least
not until those already stuck
in the ceiling had been re
moved.
Patrick, a slightly freckled
reddish-blond five-year-old
who was running about in red
and white long underwear,
accepted the warning at face
value: the old man meant
business on this one.
Nothing to debate here. In
the Kennedy family the rule
of the father is the rule of
law. Joe Kennedy, the family
patriarch, would have under
stood. Hell, he wrote the
rules.
Now the last living son,
Ted, as pater familias made
the rules and he expected his
children to live by them.
Young Patrick sensed that
rules were made by fathers to
be obeyed, even on vacation
in Vail where Kennedy had
come with his children to
spend a few days following
the tracks and neat turns of
Willy Schaeffler.
Os course the question
asserted itself. It’s on every
one’s mind who has been
looking at the presidency and
its occupant’s attempts to
preserve his place in history
as the man who kept the of
fice intact and unsullied by
the probing fingers of con
gressional committees.
It takes a certain com
posure to answer the question
,l Are you a candidate?” and
he could have responded as
one incumbent Democratic
governor did — “I will be” —
when told by an admirer than
he should be President. But
the inquiry is shelved tempo
rarily, until an answer begins
to emerge a few minutes
later.
There is a memory that
slides backward over the tra
gedy and tumult of the past
13 years and the senator
nostalgically returns to the
Kennedy compound in Hyan
nis, Mass.:
What happened that day
was an ordinary happens
tance in the life of any father.
Caroline Kennedy, in tears,
found herself in a predica
ment that only fathers can
resolve. She called for her’s,
the President. Sensitive to
her needs, he went to the cry
ing child, only to be diverted
by a call from the White
House. Something urgent he
should know before he left for
his meetings with the unruly
and unpredictable
Khrushchev.
As the senator remembers
that evening, old Joe Ken
nedy admonished his son
Jack at the dinner table.
“Nothing you do as President
will ever be as important as
the future of your daughter.”
The question of his running,
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then, loses some of its moot
quality in light of Ted Jr.’s
battle against cancer. Inquir
ies pertaining to his interest
and availability somehow
don’t strike the same spark
that talking about a weekend
with Ted Jr. does. And the
question “Will he run?”
assumes another form: “Can
he run?”
For sure there are those
who say that Kennedy
couldn't withstand the heat
generated by Watergate.
That the press in its
voraciousness would scrutin
ize Chappaquiddick and
eventually feed on the candi
date until its lust for another
victim had been satiated.
Maybe. The media these
days seem to rely solely on
their piranha instincts.
So Kennedy, the non-candi
date in this time of troubles,
sees his primary obligation in
terms of his responsibilities
as a father, to his own, as well
as to his dead brothers’
children.
Yet to turn his back en
tirely on the Democratic par
ty and those who look to him
for leadership has a certain
quality of throwing in the
towel. And how is that ex
plained to a 12-year-old
who’s learning to ski as an
amputee?
It just isn’t, not to a Ken
nedy anyway.
Shortly Ted Kennedy heads
for Russia where he will talk
with Premier Alexei Kosygin
and First Secretary Leonid
Brezhnev. He says he
wouldn’t be making the trip
unless the two Soviet leaders
had agreed in advance to
meet with him. A fact-finding
mission? Well, yes and no.
En route he will stop in
Bonn for a luncheon talk with
Willy Brandt and, in his own
words, he will make use of
the stopover to deliver an
“upbeat” speech on America
and, yes, the positive aspects
of Watergate.
The footsteps he will be
tracing are those of Secre
tary of State Henry
Kissinger, recently in
Moscow to convince the
Soviets that detente is a
reality, not a myth.
With its obvious, calculated
political overtones the Russia
visit is certain to deflate an
other myth — that Kennedy
isn’t looking at 1976, Chappa
quiddick notwithstanding.
To what extent political
ambition and family respon
sibility are incompatible, if
not mutually exclusive, how
ever, is the issue Ted Ken
nedy must reckon with in the
months ahead.
It’s bound to be an agoniz
ing one, even for a Kennedy.
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