C 0 w Page 2-Sunday, September 12, 1982-The Michigan Daily 20% to 50% OFF GOOD QUALITY ORIENTAL RUGS NEW-USED-ANTIQUE TAPESTRY-BED SPREADS WALL HANGING-TABLECLOTH HAN DCRAFT (Jewelry, Pipes, etc.) Surgeon says poverty affects cancer rates Persia HOUSE OF IMPORTS 320 EAST LIBERTY STREET ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48107 Phone: (313) 769-8555 .1 IIII SEATTLE (AP)- American blacks are less likely than whites to survive a bout with cancer and a surgeon who works in Harlem said yesterday the dif- ference seems rooted in poverty. "The bottom line of this problem seems to be socio-economic rather than race," said Dr. Harold Freeman, chief of surgery at Harlem Hospital Center in New York. "It becomes racial because there are more poor people among some ethnic groups," he said, adding that more than a third of blacks are below poverty level compared to 11 percent of whites. FREEMAN SAID he spent the past 15 years in Harlem and worked before that in middle-class Manhattan, "so I have had a chance to compare the two and there was a striking difference.' He said only one in five cancer patients survived at the turn of the cen- tury. In 1982, "nearly half of patients with cancer survive five years. This is a tremendous achievement, but there are segments of the population that still live as though they are back in 1900. Where I work is one of those areas.' Freeman told a session of the 13th In- ternational Cancer Congress that once cancer is diagnosed, most people of all incomes receive good treatment. But, .__.__. 1 ,i i he said, "socio-economic differences..,; lead to later diagnosis of the disease" and therefore limit success of treat- ment. But when survival priorities include whether you are going to even eat on a given day, those priorities take precedence," he said. Many im- poverished people, therefore, see doc- tors only vWith serious emergencies and rarely receive diagnostic tests. FREEMAN ALSO noted that Medicaid, which finances medical care for the poor, does not pay for routine screening. Because the biggest problem is get- ting the poor of any race to seek diagnostic tests that could save their lives, the 'Harlem hospital is trying "outreach from the inside." Freeman said patients who show up at the emergency room with non-cancer problems are automatically tested for certain cancers if at higher risk because of sex or age. After two years "with some success," the concept should be tried on a broader scale, Freeman said. He also stressed the need for education among impoverished groups, but warned it must take account of ethnic and cultural differences. He said a breast examination center established in Harlem was launched with considerable mass advertising but "we found that half of the women came in after being told about it by another individual. And we have not reached the (very poor) population we were aiming for." "A lot of information on television and so forth is really directed towards people who are educated," which rarely includes the poor, he said. Use Daily Classif ieds- 764-0557 And save with these special prices on Luxo Lamps. I.-. LSA Student Government POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Death penalty backers fight on LANSING- The State Court of Appeals refused to set aside a spot for the death penalty proposal on the November ballot and backers of the con- troversial issue say they will appeal the decision. Supporters of reinstating the death penalty said they would file an emergency appeal with the state Supreme Court. A three judge panel Friday barred the proposed constitutional amendment from the ballot by upholding a Board of State Canvassers ruling. Last mon- th, the board had maintained that there were not enough valid signatures on the petitions to allow it to be placed on the ballot. Oakland County Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson, a strong advocate of the death penalty and Republican candidate for attorney general said the decision was, "disappointing," but was not a "rejection or setback." He added that it merely "clears the way to the Supreme Court." Reagan quiet on freeze vote WASHINGTON- After a lengthy internal debate, the Reagan ad- ministration is refusing to take a stand on a controversial nuclear freeze referendum facing Wisconsin voters Tuesday, on the ground that its wording is ambiguous. A revised State Department position, set forth late last week, said the question on the Wisconsin ballot alludes to the desirability of both a "nuclear weapons moratorium and reduction" without specifying which should come first. The administration's refusal to take a stand on the Wisconsin referendum would seem to leave in doubt-the significance of Tuesday's vote, regardless of the outcome. Moreover, by declining to oppose the resolution, the administration would spare itself political embarrassment if Wisconsin voters, as expected, en- dorse a nuclear freeze. Numerous town, city and county governments around the country have supported the concept of a freeze on nuclear weapons, but never has the issue been the subject of a statewide referendum until Tuesday. However, in addition to Wisconsin next week, eight more states will vote on nuclear freeze resolutions in the November elections-California, Arizona, Oregon, North Dakota, Montana, Michigan, Rhode Island and New Jersey. Philippine leader to visit U;S. MANILA, Philippines- President Ferdinand Marcos is expected to discuss trade issues and use of U.S. military bases in the Philippines this week on this first state visit to the United States in 16 years. America is the country's closest military ally, biggest trading partner and haven for some of its harshest government critics. Marcos spent part of his 65th birthday yesterday preparing speeches for his trip, which starts Tuesday. The exact itinerary was kept secret for security reasons but was expected, besides Washington, to include New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu and Mobile, Ala. Marcos and his increasingly influential wife, Imelda, 53, are to meet; President Reagan at the White House on Thursday. The cool relations Marcos encountered during the Carter administration have visibly warmed during the Reagan presidency. Vice President George Bush told Marcos at his inauguration last year: "We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes and we will not leave you in isolation." His trip comes 10 years after Marcos declared martial law and pushed the Philippines away from the American-style democracy that would have allowed him only one more year as president. Corona's retrial goes to jury HAYWARD, Calif.- The seven-month-old retrial of Juan Corona, accused of hacking to death 25 farm laborers who had drifted from one harvest to another, is expected to go to the jury tomorrow. If acquitted, the 48-year-old Mexican national would leave jail for the first time since May 26, 1971, when he was taken from his Yuba City home and charged with the killings. If convicted again, he would be eligible for immediate parole con- sideration by the state Board of Prison Terms because of time served. Corona was convicted in January 1973, and 25 consecutive life sentences were imposed. Five years later, however, a new trial was ordered by a state appeals court that ruled the first defense inadequate. At the same time, the three-judge panel said, "the evidence proving ap- pellant's (Corona's) guilt, although circumstantial, was overwhelming." Iraqi planes sink another Iranian ship Iraqi warplanes sank an Iranian naval vessel in the Persian Gulf near the Ardashir oil fields yesterday, bringing to four the number of ships destroyed in as many days, the state-run Iraqi News Agency reported. "A formation of Iraqi airforce attacked an enemy naval target, scoring a direct hit that destroyed and sunk it," the agency reported, quoting a military spokesman. All planes returned safely to base, the agency said. As has become customary, no details were released concerning the type or nationality of the vessel sunk. 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