The Sachse Sentinel (Sachse, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 1, 1986 Page: 4 of 28
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SACHSE SENTINEL
JANUARY 1986
spotlight on health
FDA APPROVES NEW HEAT TREATMENT FOR CANCER
A new therapy using heat
to destroy cancer cells is offer-
ing hope to many of the
910,000 persons diagnosed as
having cancer this year.
Heat therapy, or hyper-
thermia, was recently ap-
proved by the Food and Drug
Administration and is now
provided to patients at lead-
ing treatment centers through-
out the United States. This
FDA approval places hyper-
thermia among the major
cancer treatment options a-
vailable, joining radiation,
chemotherapy and surgery.
How does heat therapy
work? Most commonly, physi-
cians use hyperthermia in
conjunction with radiation
therapy. Hyperthermia uses
sophisticated microwave tech-
nology to destroy the heat-
sensitive center of the tumor,
which enhances the ability of
radiation to kill the remain-
ing cancer cells. Clinical test-
ing of hyperthermia in con-
junction with chemotherapy
is also underway and is yield-
ing encouraging results.
One of the country's most
progressive hyperthermia
treatment centers, Park View
Medical Center in Nashville,
Tenn., has been researching
hyperthermia's effectiveness
since 1983. According to Ste-
ven Stroup, director of oncol-
ogy at Park View, hyperther-
mia is now considered an im-
portant part of the hospital's
overall treatment program.
''We're convinced of hyper-
thermia's ability to success-
fully eradicate various forms
of cancer," Stroup says. "We
have treated more than 60
different tumors with hyper-
thermia in conjunction with
radiation, resulting in an 85
percent response rate. In over
60 percent of these cases, we
have been able to eradicate
the entire tumor."
Park View's results are
comparable to those of recent
worldwide studies which re-
veal a 64 percent complete re-
sponse rate, compared to 25
percent with radiation alone.
The hyperthermia systems
used at Park View and other
leading hospitals were de-
veloped by Dallas-baaed
Clini-Therm Corporation.
They use fiber-optic sensing
devices to provide accurate
heat meaaurement and con-
trol of the heat delivered to a
tumor.
The new treatment has
proven particularly effective
against breaat cancer, which
afflicts more than 118,000
women each year. It's used in
canes where neither lumpec-
TUMOR REGRESSION RATE AFTER
WEEKLY TREATMENT
Radiation Atone
HUM
Radiation
Plus
Hyperthermia
A 6 8 10 12
Weeks Alter Therapy
Kim, Hahn, Ahmed—"Cancer" —August 1. 1982
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Hyperthermia, when used with radiation treatment, pro-
duces tumor regression in half the time of radiation
alone.
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tomies nor mastectomies are
appropriate — such as large
tumors of the breast, tumor
recurrences once a patient
has exceeded recommended
radiation levels, and chest
wall recurrences after a mas-
tectomy. Hyperthermia is
also valuable in treating
tumors of the head and neck,
which are often difficult or
dangerous to treat surgically.
Patients receiving hyper-
thermia are normally treated
on an outpatient basis. Typi-
cal treatments last approxi-
mately one hour and are ad-
ministered twice each week
for six weeks. What's more,
hyperthermia's successful de-
velopment recently led to its
reimbursement approval
through the Health Care Fi-
nance Administration, mak-
ing the treatment available to
patients through their Medi-
care or other major insurance
coverage.
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Texas Utilities Electric
Company to Apply for
Customer Refund
Texas Utilities Electric Company will apply to the Public
Utility Ccrtrtussion in Mid-January for authority to refund about
$78 Million to its customers, TP&L District Manager Jerry Morgan
announced.
The amount represents the savings to customers brought about
by lower costs for the fuel used to make electricity in 1985.
The company is asking the HJC to authorize the refund to be
made at the earliest possible date, which would be in March,
through a credit cn customers' bills that month.
Under the Company's Proposal, residential customers are ex-
pected to receive an average refund of about $12.50.
" We have been able to achieve significant savings in fuel
oosts this year," Mr. Morgan said.
The decreasing price of Natural Gas, which is used to produce
about half the oonpany's electricity, allowed the company to re-
negotiate a number of contracts and thereby lowor the price it
paid for gas, he said.
He noted that the price of gas bought by the company has de-
clined from an average of $3.74 Per Million BTU in 1984 to $3.44
at the end of November 1985. " The year 1985 is the first year
in two decades that our average natural gas cost has gone down,"
he said.
TUEC has had fixed per-Kilowatt-Hour charges for fuel, app-
roved ky the PUC, since August 1983. The company has had a cum-
ulative under-oollection of fuel oosts during 19 of the first
24 months that these diarges were in effect. Lower fuel oosts
have resulted in the current cumulative $78 Million over-oollec-
tion which has occured since September 1985. This amount iafl
about 4 percent of the company's annual fuel oosts. ®
Since the oosts of Natural Gas is still declining, and the
company is ocntinuing its aggressive pursuit of lower-priced gas
contracts, the company will ask for the refund authorization,
he said.
Because the fuel cost savings are expected to oontinue during
1986, TUEE also will ask the PUC to approve lower per-Kilowatt-
Hour charges for fuel. The company will be working with the PUC
and other interested parties to determine appropriate charges.
TP&L, Texas Electric Service Co. and Dallas Power & Light Co.
are subsidiaries of TOEE.
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