The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, November 1, 1978-Page 3
UNSAFE ACNE CURE:
X-ray may lead to skin
By CAROL KOLETSKY
In her senior year in high school,
Mary McKenny decided to do
something about her acne problem. It
was 1938, and x-rays were just
becoming the generally accepted
sun has hit them. There is 10 times,
more skin cancer in North Australia
and New Mexico than here - and far-
mers, who are out in the sun, show a
high percentage of it," Grabb said.
MCKENNY, a University Law School
second biopsy indicating that the can-
cer was extensive, he resurfaced her
nose by "grafting," using shoulder
bone and neck skin to cover cuts.
"I didn't know how I would react to
having my face cut and scarred. You
"We know x-rays have caused skin cancer because it has only been found with
people who had acne treated in that manner 20 to 40 years ago, or people get
skin cancer where the sun has hit them. There is 10 times more skin cancer in
North Australia and New Mexico than here. Farmers, who are out in the sun
show a high percentage of it."
-Dr. William Grabb, University Hospital
Picket or treat
Members of the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) were
hardly trick-or-treating yesterday as they picketed in front of the LSA
Building. Carrying signs with slogans such as "Two years is too long"
and "The administration can't spook us - Boo on U-M's anti-union
policy" about 10 Graduate Student Assistants (GSAs) stpped passers
by and gave out leaflets explaining the two-year contract dispute
between GEO and the University, in which the Michigan Employment
Relations Commission will decide whether GSAs are students or
employees. GEO organizer' Mike Kozura, a sociology teaching
assistant, said this was the second Halloween GEO picketed in front of
LSA but that he hoped and didn't think GEO would have to picket next
year. "We've gotten a lot of positive response from students and
faculty," Kozura said.
East Quad beseiged
East Quad will soon be a battle scene again as the third annual
"Killer Contest" gets underway this week. Killer, which is played with'
rubber-tipped dart guns, is based on the age-old theory of survival of
the fittest. Each participant in the game has a victim to "kill", and, in
turn, is a victim himself. The object is to be the last survivor in the
contest. Sources close to the story have disclosed that several of the
players have stockpiled mass quantities of food and supplies in order
to remain in their rooms and not be "wasted". Rumors that Mafia
recruiters will follow the proceedings are totally false.
Hats off to 'U
Three 'U' faculty and administrators are among 100 of the "most
respected emerging leaders in higher education" cited in the October
issue of Change magazine. Professor Carolyne Davis, Associate
Vice President for Academic Affairs; Professor Marvin Peters ,
Director of the Center for theStudy of Higher Education, a d
Professor Nellie Varner, Associate Dean of Rackham School of
Graduate Studies were selected among some 2,000 nominations
submitted by universities, foundations, and education associations
throughout the country. The survey was designed to supplement
Change magazine's "Who's Who in Higher Education" published four
years ago. The U-M was the only Michigan institution represented in
the top 100.
Take ten
On November 1, 1968, Nguyen van Thieu, then-president of South
Vietnam, said he could not agree to bargain with the National
Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong. In an address to a
joint session of the South Vietnam Congress - one day after President
Johnson ordered a complete halt to bombing of North Vietnam -
Thieu said the only real path to the end of the war would be
negotiations between Saigon and Hanoi.
Happenings
FILMS
Mediatrics-Images, 7 & 9 p.m. Natural Science Auditorium.
Ann Arbor Film Co-op - Adventured of Robinson Crusoe 7 p.m.;
The Criminal Life of archibaldo de la Cruz, 9 p.m. Aud. A, Angell.
Cinema LI - Retour d'Afrique, 7 & 9 p.m. Modern Language
Building.
Cinema Guild - Lady in the Lake, 7 & 9:05, Old Arch. Aud.
SPEAKERS
Sparatacus Youth League Forum - "Carter's Anti-Soviet 'Human
Rights' Campaign: Imperialist Crusade Against the Soviet Union",
East Quad, Residential College room 122, 7:30.
Peoples Action Coalition - "Political Practice; Organizing and
Education", Michele Russel, author and educator.
PERFORMANCES
Studio Theatre Programs - "Silence" by Harold Pinter, Arena
Theatre, Frieze Building, 4:10, free.
Showcase Theatre - Lorca's "Blood Wedding", Trueblood Theatre,
Freize Building, 8 p.m.
Musical Society - Dimitri-clown-mime, Power Center, 8 p.m.
MISCELLANEOUS
Panhellenic Society Plant Sale - Union Ballroom, 10 a.m. - 8p.m.
Student Blood Bank - Michigan Union Assembly Hall, 11 a.m. - 5
p.m.-
Project Outreach Internship in Adolescence - This full time
undergraduate work study program is now accepting applications for
winter '79, call 764-9179 or stop by 555 Thompson for information.
D. C. dancing
Washingtonians are boogying in the bowels of the Federal Home
Loan Bank building at a new discotheque called "The Buck Stops
Here." The disco, started by enterprising entrepreneur Anthony
Greco, doubles as the building's cafeteria in the day time. It also
makes money for the government. If Greco achieves his goal of $3
million gross the government will make $200,000 plus rent. "There's
never going to be a dull moment here," Greco claims. "This place is
going to help wipe out the national debt." So far it looks like he may be
right. 200 people - including several White House aides - jammed the
disco recently. Now if we can just slide some of those ISR computers
over to one side of the room . . .
On the outside
November starts out with a lot of sunshine. It should be sunny all day
with temperatpre highs in the mid to upper 50s.
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treatment for acne.
So every few weeks for almost two
years McKenny traveled to a reputable
dermatologist in Ann Arbor for
carefully timed exposures to x-rays,
A SMALL SORE on the side of her
nose which bled a little and refused to
heal appeared ten years later. A
surgeon from Toledo, Ohio, her native
town, barely examined the sore and
cauterized it.
After another five years, a tiny sore
which turned into a red spot and was
accompanied by slight bleeding ap-
peared on her cheek. Two doctors told
McKenny it was "a broken capillary
due to age - nothing to worry about."
At the end of the summer of 1976,
McKenny had three keritosises, or tiny
bumps on the bridge of her nose. Her
entire nose was red, like a sunburn that
does not go away.
THE CONCLUSION reached by one
doctor that she indeed had "a problem"
led McKenny to a surgeon who conduc-
ted a biopsy for skin cancer. It was
negative, but this was the first doctor
who asked her if she had ever been ex-
posed to x-rays.
Various medications were prescribed
for her skin but last year she noticed a
sore larger than all the others. This
time, a biopsy was positive for basal
cell carcinoma, skin cancer.
"Under an x-ray beam the acne
decreases," said Dr. William Grabb,
head of plastic surgery at the Univer-
sity Hospital. "But unfortunately, they
also cause permanent changes in the
skin."
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
hearings on the potential harm of x-
rays were held last week. Because of
the cancer problem, x-ray treatment
for acne became outmoded twenty
years ago.
"We know x-rays have caused skin
cancer because it has only been found
with people who had acne treated in
that manner 20 to 40 years ago.
Or people get skin cancer where the
Daily Official Bulletin
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1978
Daily Calendar:
Biological Science: Rullell L. Malmberg, MSU,
"Temperature-Sensitive Mutants of Tobacco
Isolated from Cell Culture, MLB, lecture room 2 4
P.m.
Statistics: Alistair Scott, Auckland U., "Analysis
of Categorical Data from Complex Surveys," 451
Mason Hall, 4 p.m.
Ind/Oper. Eng.: Stephen Pollock, "Models for
Evaluating Criminal Corrections Programs," 229 W.
Eng., 4 p.m.
Physics/Astronomy: S. Berko, Brandeis U., "The
Positron Annihilation Technique in Solid State
Research," 296 Dennison, 4p.m.
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
volume LXXXIX, No. 48
Wednesday, November 1, 1978
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graduate and now a housewife and
mother, is also sure x-rays caused the
cancer. "It appeared only on my face
where I had my x-ray treatment. No
one in my family ever had skin can-
cer."
Grabb cut McKenny's cancer out and
stretched skin over the hole. After a
look like a mess. If the graft takes, you
gradually begin to look better, but
never perfect.
"I'VE LEARNED how to use
cosmetics and glasses to cover scars. I
have to avoid the sun, so I wear sun
creams and hats. But I used to love
gardening and sports."
Cancer
The government, Grabb, MCKenny
and many others are anxious to alert
patients who were treated with x-rays
to small sores that do not heal, and to
the possibility of cancer.
"Even the doctors in the operating
room with Dr. Grabb did not know it
was the x-rays that did it," said
McKenny.
MCKENNY HAS had four surgical
operations. She has check-ups every ten
days to two weeks. Grabb says the can-
cer does not spread beyond the area
treated by, x-rays, but biopsies and
surgery will be for McKenny and many
others, a continuing nightmare.
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