Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1976 Page: 8 of 12
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THE RIO GRANDE HERALD PAGE 8 THURSDAY, JANUARY 29,1976
ANSWER American Cancer Society
LIIVIE ^nc'erson ^°sP'ta'
and Tumor Institute
Cancer Drug Research
Pro viding Good News
MIDDLE EAST TOUR - Mr. and Mrs. Tomas D. Munoz recently
returned to Germany from a two-week tour of the Middle East. The
journey took them to Cairo, Egypt, where they saw the famous
pyramids and the Sphinx; Jordan, where they toured the "Rose-
red City" at Petra which is carved out of pink sandstone cliffs;
Israel, where they visited old and new Jerusalem, Bethlehem,
Jericho, the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee, and Tel Aviv; and
Istanbul, Turkey. Munoz, a graduate of Rio Grande City High
School, received his B.S. and M.S. from Texas A&I and taught
school for three years in Rio Grande City. In the last six years he
has been working for the Department of Defense as a teacher. He
has taught in Japan, Korea, and presently in Germany. His job has
given him and his wife, Barbara, who is also a teacher, the op-
portunity to travel in twenty-four countries. Munoz is the brother of
Lilly and Minerva Munoz of Rio Grande City. He is looking forward
to coming home this summer to visit relatives and friends.
Hill Appoints Rodriguez To Staff
The fact that cancer claims
a victim in this country every
minute and a half is a fright-
ening reality we must all live
with. But where's the good
news about cancer?
Living proof that there is
good news is evidenced by
the 222,000 Americans the
American Cancer Society es-
timates will be saved from
cancer this year. While no
one is claiming a complete
cure for the disease, words
like "remission" and "con-
trol" are being heard more
often today than five years
ago.
In recent years specialists
in cancer care have been ac-
celerating the war against can-
cer through surgery, radia-
tion, drugs and knowledge
of the body's immune sys-
tem. Some of the longest
AUSTIN-Attorney General
John Hill announced the ap-
pointment of Assistant Attorney
General J. Roberto Rodriguez
to the staff of his Lower South
Texas regional office.
Rodriguez will join Assistant
Attorneys General Neal Duvall
and Luis Moreno, who heads
Hill's newest regional office in
McAllen.
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year-old Rodriguez is a
December graduate of the
University of Texas School of
Law. He will be assigned to
Consumer Protection and
Environmental Protection
Division work in his new
position.
Since August 1974, Rodriguez
has served as a legal intern for
the Opinions Committee of the
Attorney General's Office. He
has also worked as a law clerk
for Rankin, Kern & Martinez
law offices in McAllen and as a
committee clerk for State
Senator William T. (Bill) Moore
of Bryan during the Con-
convention.
At UT Law School, Rodriguez
was a member of the Chicano
Law Students Association and
was recognized for his legal
memorandum efforts. He
earned his bachelor of arts
degree in government and
international studies from the
University of Notre Dame,
Indiana, in 1973. While there, he
was a Blue Circle Honor Society
member and student govern-
ment representative.
Rodriguez is married to the
former Partricia Ann Ramirez
of Roma.
The Nine Worthies were
heroes popular in medieval art
and stories. They were three
Christians — King Arthur,
Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouil-
lon; three Jews — Joshua, Da-
vid, Judas Macabaeus; three
pagans — Hector of Troy, Alex-
ander the Great, Julius Caesar.
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cent.
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strides in this war have come
in the field of drug use known
as chemotherapy.
According to Or. I* mil J
Freireich who directs the re-
search of some 30 cancer
investigators at The Univer-
sity of Texas M. D. Ander-
son Hospital and Tumor In-
stitute in Houston. "Chemo-
therapy is the only therapy
available for cancers that have
spread beyond the possibility
of local control at the pri-
mary cancer site and there-
fore cannot be treated by
surgery or radiation."
It is important to remem-
ber, he explains, that cancer
is not one disease but a large
group of diseases ... all
dramatically different in char-
acteristics and treatment.
Thus, just as each cancer type
is specific, drugs must be
equally specific. Obviously,
an over-all cure is no simple
matter.
Despite the complexities.
Dr. Freireich points out that
chemotherapy has made nu-
merous advances on the dis-
ease during its briet 30-year
history. For a small number
of cancers, the use of drugs
is actually the treatment of
choice.
For example, he explains
that a single drug is avail-
able that does cure chorio-
carcinoma, a cancer o! the
female placenta or atterbirth.
"Women who have had llus
cancer would have died lor
sure hi a very short period
of time. Using the drug, early
and properly, they are not
only completely normal after
five years, but they have their
childbearing organs intact and
can have normal, healthy chil-
dren," he notes.
Advanced llodgkin s dis-
ease and childhood leukemia
are two other examples of
cancers that have been con-
trolled successfully in recent
years by use of chemotherapy,
says Dr. Freireich.
Unfortunately, to date the
majority of cancers have not
been successfully treated by
drugs, notes Dr. Freireich.
"What's new now," he says,
"is that we are beginning
to realize that we can use
chemotherapy in patients who
have been treated well with
surgery and radiation but
where likelihood that they
will have recurrences is very
high. We call that adjunctive
chemotherapy."
Thus, for many cancers,
the chemotherapist is being
called into action much earli-
er in the patient's treatment
to combine the benefits of
specialized treatments.
Perhaps most promising of
all is the development of com-
bination drugs to wage war on
cancer.
Using combination drugs,
Dr. Freireich notes that dra-
matic improvements have
been made during recent years
for the treatment of breast
cancer, lymphoma, ovarian
cancer and osteogenic sarco-
ma. Osteogenic sarcoma is
Ihe same disease thai took
the life of University of Tex-
as fool ball star F reddie Stein-
mark just 5 years ago.
Working around the clock,
seven days a week, research
continues in Ihe development
ol belter drugs and drug com-
binations thai will aid in the
battle against cancer and con-
tribute good news to a bad
subject.
Do yhh have further ques-
tions ' Cull vour lot ul unit
of tlic I iilcricuu Cancer
Society or write: Cancer
I n for mo lion Service, 1'hc
I 'niveisil\' ol Texas, U.I).
\iitlt i\on Hospital it Ju-
nior Institute, /':">• ,is 1 /<<//-
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Rodriguez, Rene. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1976, newspaper, January 29, 1976; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194544/m1/8/: accessed April 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.