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DAILY SPECTRUM SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1983 PACE 4 'Hyperthermia' microwave I 1(1 1 IIP "11 UofU appies FDA expected to okay Utah cancer treatment SALT LAKE CITY UPI Young Keleigh Tucker of Hastings, New Zealand, now knows what happens to some of the apples shipped out of her hometown. They wind up in the University of Utah Medical Center cafeteria. Miss Tucker, 11, tucked a letter inside a crate of apples shipped April 6 from Hastings, a city of know as the "Fruitbowl of Zealand." She asked the finder to send a return letter letting her know where the apples wound up and telling her something about the fruit's final destination. Nutrition service employees Sharon Brouse and Michelle House found Miss Tucker's letter when they oppend the crate of apples. The finders said they would send Miss Tucker a University of Utah Mrdical Center T-shirt and key chain, along with literature containing information about the hospital and Salt Lake City.

Bud will stay same time," he said. Thetreatment will not cure cancers, an FDA official said, but is designed to shrink tumors and give terminal patients a longer life. It is also expected to see use in combination with more traditional treatments surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Hyperthermia machines heat cells, particularly those in tumors near the surface of the skin, to between 108 and 113 degrees Fahrenheit, well above normal body temperature of 98.6. Stripling said his company's machine works on the principle that cancerous tissue is more sensitive to heat than is normal tissue.

"When a tumor grows it does not have a good blood supply system," he said. "So when you apply heat, the tumor cannot hand'le that heat well. A given amount of heat will damage tumorous tissue long before it damages the surrounding normal tissue. The normal tissue has good a supply of blood, and the blood dissipates the heat away through the rest of the body." Hyperthermia machines are currently in use at about 100 research hospitals, but FDA approval would cut the elaborate procedures necessary for experimental treatments. FDA approval is also a major step toward routine insurance payments for new medical treatments and procedures.

Results so far show the treatment is most effective against cancers on the skin or no more than two inches below the surface of the skin. Many tumors, including many breast cancers, are near the skin surface. WASHINGTON (UPI) The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve sometime this summer a new cancer treatment involving microwave heat applied directly to tumors, a spokesman said Saturday. The treatment, called hyperthermia, uses microwaves like those used to cook food to raise the temperature of cancer cells enough to damage them. A directed beam is used, however.

"It's really the same technology as a microwave oven," said the spokesman. An FDA advisory committee on radi-ologial devices recommended Thursday that BSD Medical Corp. of Salt Lake City be allowed to market its $200,000 hyperthermia machine for treatment of incurable cancers. "We're very encouraged," BSD President Louis Stripling said Saturday. "It's been a long time coming.

We've been in clinical trials since June of 1979." Stripling said he expects full and quick FDA approval. "We have 16 clinical investigators working with us and they have produced a good data base to support our request for approval," he said in a telephone interview. But Dr. Richard Kaplan, an associate professor at the University of Maryland cancer center in Baltimore where the technique is under study, expressed reservations. "I have great confidence in the future of hyperthermia," Kaplan said, "but I am apprehensive about its overuse without enough research after FDA approval.

"I'm not against its use, but I feel it should be studied and improved at the SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Police Chief Bud Wil-loughby says he will not return home to Kansas City, to take over that town's police force. Newspaper reports in Kansas City said Willough-by was one of two prime candidates to replace retiring Police Chief Norman A. Caron. But Willoug-hy, who spent 20 years on the Kansas City force, said he will not leave Salt Lake City to replace Caron. Diamond scam SALT LAKE CITY UPI A Salt Lake City man has pleaded innocent to charges he swindled more than $20 million from Utah investors in a diamond scam.

Jon C. Vasilacopulos, 25, entered the plea in Third District Court Friday. He was ordered by Judge Homer Wilkinson to appear at a pre-trial conference July 21. The Utah Attorney General's Office alleges that Vasilacopulos operated a "ponzi" scheme in which he sold the same diamonds over and over to more than 1,000 investors. Vasilacopulos was arrested Nov.

16, 1981 while en-route to Salt Lake International Airport. Authorities confiscated a briefcase containing $2 million in cash and checks. Anti-censorship vote SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The Utah Libertarian Party Saturday passed a resolution opposing government censorship of cable television programming. Delegates said they were "unalterably opposed to any and all government censorship of verbal, written or electronic communication." Utah legislators passed a bill during their regular session earlier this year controlling the sexual content of cable television. The bill was vetoed by Governor Scott M.

Math-eson, but his veto was later overridden by the legislators during a special session. Wyo. halts Amtrack suit, 1 move remains CHEYENNE, Wyo. (UPI) The state of Wyoming has decided to drop one of its federal court suits attempting to stop Amtrak from discontinuing passenger rail service in the state July 16. The U.S.

10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on July 1 affirmed U.S. District Judge Ewing T. Kerr's ruling rejecting Wyoming's attempt to stop Amtrak from moving the Denver to Salt Lake City leg of the east-west service from southern Wyoming to central "The governor decided not to press the issue any further," W. Don Nelson, administrative aide to Gov. Ed Herschler, said Friday.

That leaves the state with only one other avenue to slop Amtrak's move. Oral arguments are set for Aug. 5 before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wyoming's challenge of an Interstate Commerce Commission opinion allowing the Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad to drop service on the tracks Amtrak will use through Colorado and Utah. I SLC fatal Ineptness charged SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) An elderly Salt Lake City woman was killed in a one-car accident Saturday.

The Utah Highway Patrol identified the victim as Marye Steele, 69. Trooper Kirk Smith said the driver, alone in her vehicle, was eastbound on Interstate 80 near 20th East when she lost control around 10:51 a.m. Neola man killed VERNAL (UPI) A rollover on White Rocks Road Saturday claimed the life of a Duchesne County man and injured two of his passengers. The Utah Highway Patrol identified the dead man as Patrick Pike, 21, of Neola. Trooper Paul Brown said Pike was southbound near Farm Creek about three and a half miles north of Vernal at noon Saturday when his small pickup failed to negotiate a curve, ran off the road and rolled several times.

The driver and his passengers were ejected from the truck. Ernest Engavo, 19, of Neola received cuts, bruises and a neck injury. Mark Ankerpont, 21, of Neola suffered a broken leg. RENO, Nev. (UPI) The Washoe County Grand Jury has accused former hospital administrator Mike Newmark-er of "gross mismanagement." But the report issued Friday says it found no evidence of criminal misconduct during the probe of hospital operations.

The report said partly because of that mismanagement, health care costs are too high in Washoe County. It also said hospital trustees weren't properly informed about or involved in management of the hospital. Newmarker resigned under pressure and was replaced by acting administrator John Prout. Prout said he has already begun to make many of the changes recommended by the grand jury. "This grand jury, through its investigation, has established that there existed during the tenure of Mr.

Michael Newmarker as hospital administrator gross mismanagement and lack of adequate supervision." the report said. It said Newmarker didn't have con-sistant policies for service contracts and purchasing. It said no legal advice was sought before signing contracts and that costly mistakes were made in purchasing equipment by not checking alternate sources and not going to bid. The report was issued as the panel's final report. I SALT LAKE CITY Ellen Powell, mother of Air had been missing in action since 1967.

The Force Capt. Lynn Kesler Powell, watches as the Communist Vietnam government turned over American flag is lifted from her son's casket, his remains to the U.S. last week. (UPI) Powell, who was a bomber pilot in Vietnam, Vegas crime rate MiTK 30-24 30.00 LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) Las vegas police report a 19 percent drop in crime for the first six months of 1983.

Authorities say there were about 5,000 fewer crime victims in Southern Nevada during the first half of 1983 than for the same period in 1982. Robbery showed the largest drop 33 percent. Burglaries were down 23 percent, auto theft 22 percent, as sault 18 percent and rape 22 percent. Among major crime catagories, only murder showed an increase 15 percent. Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Eric Cooper attributed the overall drop to heavy public involvement in crime prevention programs such as Secret Witness and Neighborhood Watch.

Have you tried us lately? "Homefresh goodness with country charm atmosphere." Vietnam vet Powell finally laid to rest SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Air Force Capt. Lynn Kesler Powell was buried with full military honors Friday, 16 years after he was killed while on flying a combat mission in Vietnam. "The long vigil is oer for the first time and the family is together again, "Powell's uncle, Joseph Neff, told about 40 people attending graveside services at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. Powell's remains were flown to Utah after the Communist government of Vietnam turned over the bodies of nine Americans killed in that country during the war in the 1960s and early 70s. Eight of the nine were identified and returned to their families.

The pilot's mother, Ellen Powell, simply said she was glad her son was home and was happy she could give him a proper burial. Mrs. Powell said last week she was saddened at the news that her son was one of the Americans whose remains were returned because it finalized the fact he was dead. But she said she was happy to have the ordeal over at last. Powell's brother, Thomas Powell, gave the dedicatory prayer.

His sister, Janet Wilmoth, of Mor-gantown, W. also attended the service. Powell was 29 years old when he was shot down over Vietnam Aug. 21, 1967. A graduate of Provo High School and Brigham Young University.

Powell graduated with honors from BYU's Air Force ROTC program and was comissioned directly from college as a second lieutenant. He served a mission to Switzerland and Austria for the Mormon Church. Murder charged NAMPA, Idaho (UPI) A Nampa man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl, whose body was found in a ditch behind a local grocery store, Police Chief Marshall Brisbin said Saturday. Brisbin said Albert Ray Beam, 21, is being held in Lovelock, where he was apprehended early Saturday. The identity of the victim is being withheld because her father has not been notified, the chief said.

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