2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 6, 1998 NATION/WORLD Drug cuts cancer risks for healthy women AROUND THE NATI-ON ., . 1 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A new study shows that a drug used for years to treat breast cancer patients also may pre- vent the disease from occurring, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday. The National Cancer Institute, a feder- al agency that coordinates the nation's ,cancer programs, said its six-year study was the first ever to show that a drug can reduce the incidence of breast cancer. The study showed that the drug tamoxifen cut cancer rates by nearly half among women who were consid- ered at risk of getting the disease. The institute recently mailed letters announcing the breakthrough to the 13,000 women in the United States and Canada who participated in the study, the newspaper reported. "This is now the first study in the world to show that a drug can reduce the incidence of breast cancer," the let- ter stated. 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Researchers would not dis- cuss the results with the newspaper. "I'm just thrilled. Wow!" Patricia Lorah of Reading, told the Inquirer on Saturday after getting her letter. "My mother and grandmother died of breast cancer. This is almost overwhelming." Women at risk of getting the disease because of family history, precancerous breast lesions or age were randomly assigned to five years on either a place- bo pill or tamoxifen. The drug, made by Wilmington, Del.-based Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, is widely used to prevent the spread or return of breast cancer. According to the institute, the drug reduced the rate of expected breast can- cers from I in 130 women to I in 236 during the study, the Inquirer reported. But tamoxifen also has been linked to increased risks for cancer in the uterine lining and for blood clots in the lungs. www.collegestudent.com Restaurant Guide Free Classifieds Online PersonalsZ Apartment Finders It's the students' best resource! Those risks prompted The National Women's Health Network in Washington to criticize the study. "If this turns out to be a good risk- benefit ratio for some women, that will be good news" said Cindy Pearson, executive director of the National Women's Health Network. But it's "imperative for researchers to tell women what ... they know about the cost of this benefit. Did any women die of anything caused by tamoxifen?" Tamoxifen slips into estrogen recep- tors of breast cancer cells and locks up the cells, preventing them from grow- ing and dividing. In 1994, the trial was temporarily sus- pended during congressional hearings into four uterine cancer deaths in another study of breast cancer treatment using tamoxifen. University of Pittsburgh sur- geon Bernard Fisher, coordinator of the prevention trial, also was investigated for reports that he was slow to address research problems. KNOW OF NEwS? CALL 76" DAILY. Clinton feels more free to do his job WASHINGTON - President Clinton said in an interview released yesterday that the judge's decision to dismiss the Paula Jones case was in the national inter- est and will liberate him to focus attention on important issues such as tobacco, education and Social Security. "I feel now that I'm freer to keep doing what I'm supposed to be doing,"he said. "It removes whatever obstacle this case would have been to my giving everythi to this job for the next two years. Every hour, every minute I spend diverted these questions is disserving the American people." In an interview in this week's issue of Time magazine, Clinton said the ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Wright "exposed the raw political nature" of the long- running sexual harassment case and he again denied that he made unwelcome advances to either Jones or former aide Kathleen Willey. The president declined to accept any responsibility for his troubles and refused to talk about the criminal investigation by independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Still, the comments were the most extended public reaction offered by Clinton since Wright threw out the case this past Wednesday. The judge concluded that even if he did make a lewd proposition in a Little Rock hotel suite in 1991, as Jones charged, such "boorish and offensive" conduct would not constitute sexual har4 ment under the law. Li uor industry ws fight over standards WASHINGTON - Intense lobbying by the liquor and restaurant industries helped prevent a House vote on legisla- tion lowering the threshold of drunken- ness behind the wheel. Such laws should be left to the states, not Washington, says the Republican committee chair whose panel kept, the measure off the House floor. But its Democratic sponsor says the committee action proves unmistakably that "the liquor lobby ... put profits ahead of peo- ple's lives." The legislation was an amendment to a highway spending bill that would have taken highway money away from states that don't enact .08 percent blood alcohol content levels for drunken driving. It is shaping up as one of the most hard-fought drinking issues since the drive more than a decade ago to make 21 the national legal age for drinking. A month ago, the Senate passed such an amendment to its highway bill by a strong 62-32 vote, and President Clinton has endorsed a national .08 percent standard that already is in force in 16 states. Few of richest are top political donors WASHINGTON - Perhaps F s Fitzgerald had it wrong about the rich being different from you and me. They're cheap, too - at least when it comes to politics. That's the conclusion drawn by the National Taxpayers Union, which cross- checked names on the Forbes 400 list with Federal Election Commission records to determine how much the country's wealthiest people gave to polit- ical parties, political action committa and congressional and presidential didates from 1993 through 1997. The study determined, among other things, that only 38 members of the Forbes 400 are on the list of the 400 biggest federal campaign contributors. Of all the contributions recorded by the FEC during the 1995-96 election cycle, only about one-half of 1 percent came from Forbes 400 members. 16- -, AROUNID THE WORLD Open House 1 - 3 p.m. 311 West Hall RSVP, please Student Projects Showcase 1 - 6 p.m. 411 West Hall Just drop in! The School of Information $ www.si.umich.edu Y' , z Archives and Records Management Human-Computer Interaction Information Economics, Management and Policy Library and information Services U.S. treatment of Cuba under attack BLACK ROCK, Tobago - On the most tranquil of tropical isles, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright found herself confronted yesterday with the harsh reality that even the closest allies of the United States look askance at the insistent American isolation of Cuba. The issue arose in private talks Albright had with Prime Minister Basdeo Panday of Trinidad and Tobago on the eve of her meeting today with the foreign ministers of the members of the Caribbean Community, or Caricom, a close economic association of Caribbean states. While details of the talks here on the island of Tobago were not disclosed, Panday told a news conference: "I don't think Cuba poses the kind of problem it did when there was a cold war. Caricom has taken the position that Cuba is a Caribbean state." Asked if Caricom would accept Cuba as a member, the Trinidadian leader replied: "If Cuba applies, it will be con- sidered. We don't see Cuba as a prob- lem" He said he sensed a softening of the American position on Cuba, adding quickly, "But there is the Cuban lobby." This was a reference to Cuban-Ameri4 organizations that pressure the White House and Congress to maintain the trade embargo imposed on Cuba more than 35 years ago. Asian environment may face grimfuture HANOI, Vietnam--The man-ma brush fires that are raging again Indonesia are symptomatic of a wider regional peril: Southeast Asia's rapid development is racking up an alarming toll in environmental destruction. Pick almost any environmental topic, from urban pollution to defor- estation, and Southeast Asia has a track record that is among the world's worst. 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