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November 30, 1988

MEDICINE

16 OF 24 PATIENTS RECOVER

Hormone-like drug
appears to cure hepatitis

TORONTO (CP), — A drug that
mimics a hormone-like substance
produced naturally in the body ap
pears to have cured some people
dying of hepatitis, says a researcher
from the University of Toronto.

Sixteen of 24 patients With “ful
minant hepatitis” who were treated
with a synthetic form of prostag:
landin F have recovered, says. Dr.
Gary Levy, a liver specialist at
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

“They're cured and are now on no
drugs whatsoever and are back at
work.”

The other eight improved but had
liver transplants because of damage
left by the disease, said Levy, who
spoke recently at an international
liver conference in Toronto. One of
the eight died after the transplant.

Although it is too early,to draw
specific conclusions from the small,
preliminary study, Levy said the re
search is promising and has sparked
a number of larger human trials in
Canada and the United States.

Ordinarily, patients with fulminant
hepatitis have a less than 20-per-cent
survival rate. Up to 3,000 Canadians
die each year from the disease. But

Leukemia
gene
found

TORONTO (CP) — A University of
Toronto geneticist has discovered a
defective gene that causes a form of
childhood leukemia.

Dr. Ian Dube led a team of
researchers who found the chromo.
some containing the gene which
causes acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
They also located where on the
chromosome the gene is located.

This form of leukemia, called ALL,
accounts for about 10 per cent of all
leukemias, researchers say. It affects
the body's immune system through
T-cells, found in bone marrow, which
produce disease-fighting antibodies

“We expect to use these findings to
learn how the leukemia cells arise,”
said Dube, “and how the cancerous
cells differ in function from the
normal cell.”

Dube began researching the ALL
gene in 1984

Genes are units of DNA, the
molecule of the heredity found in
every cell. There are between 50,000
to 100,000 genes in each human cell.

“Cancer is a genetic disease of the
cell,” he said. “Defects that trigger
cancerous growth are passed on to
the next generations of that cell.”

Genes regulate the cell growth and
scientists now believe cancer-causing
genes called oncogenes arise from
normal genes

A cancer-causing event — such as
long-term smoking — changes heal
thy proto-oncogene into a cancerous
oncogene, thus spreading cancer as
cell growth occurs.

Dube said his group's research
supports the oncogene theory of
cancer because the gene found in the
leukemia cells they studied has been
identified as a oncogene.

The gene found in leukemia cells in
mice and humans. was one of more
than 40 oncogenes that have been
identified, he said

“Our work has only just begun
because now we want to use our
man-made gene probes to identify
the actual structure of the oncogene
and its normal precursor.”

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December 28, 29, 30

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TITITILILI Tl

the single death in Levy's study

translates into a survival rate of

better than 90 per cent.
PATIENTS CRITICAL

The patients in the study suffered
from one of three forms of hepatitis
that had progressed to a life-threat:
ening stage. Some came under
Levy's care afte lapsing into comas.

There are many forms of hepatitis
— or inflammation of the liver —
most of them caused by viruses.

Hepatitis B, which strikes an es
timated 200,000 North Americans
each year, can cause mild flu-like
symptoms or serious liver damage
that gives sufferers the yellow
skinned appearance of jaundice.

Up to 10 per cent of people with
hepatitis B become carriers, able to
infect others through sexual inter.
course or the exchange of blood.

Blood donations in Canada are

screened for hepatitis B and the
disease can be prevented by a
vaccine. But a high percentage of
carriers go on to develop potentially
fatal liver cancer or cirrhosis of the
liver.

Hepatitis A, also known as infec-
tious hepatitis, spreads from person
to person by casual contact or
through contaminated food and
water \supplies. It causes fever,
nausea and jaundice. No vaccine has
been developed.

NOT DETECTED

A third form of the disease, Non
A-Non B hepatitis, is caused by sev
eral unidentified viruses, Levy said.
About one-third of those infected
contract it through blood donations,
for which no foolproof screening pro-
cess has been found.

Levy stressed much larger and
carefully controlled studies of pros

taglandin F are needed before it
could be approved for widespread
clinical use.

One of the studies he is heading,
which he began last month and will
be conducted at several Canadian
hospitals, involves treating 30 pati.
ents with prostaglandin F and 30
with a placebo.

However, there are ethical con-
cerns because of the high fatality
rate associated with the disease,
Levy said. “Most of these patients
are in the ICU, often on respirators,
on the brink of death.

“One of my fellows (physicians)
will be with the patient all the time,”
he said. “If there is any deterioration
in the condition” the doctor will im
mediately begin prostaglandin treat:
ment and the patient will be placed
on a waiting list for a liver trans.
plant.

GEORAMA GROWERS
On Granite Road in Nelson
Are Celebrating Their 20th Anniversary
By Holding an Open Hous
This Weekend — Sat. & Sun., Dec. 3&4

There will be tree coffee and donuts as well as a beautitul door prize, To
thank. all our customers ove the past 20 years, Georama has discounted all
insettias, Tropical

from 4’ to 6' that can be enjoyed at Christmas and planted in the spring,

Georame Growers will be open this weekend Sat. & Sun. trom 8 ‘till 5

The Management and Staff at Georama
Wish for You — A Peacuetul and Joyous Christmas!

ee
phgiey

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alad for Spring delivery.

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OUTBOARDS

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6H.P. $1,510 $1,225
15H.P. $2,530 $2,075
50H.P. $4,820 $4,200
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BOAT TOP
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WOODBURY TRADING LTD.
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4km. North of Ainsworth Hot Springs
PHONE TERRY OR LEX JONES AT

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November 30,1988 Cl

THIS SPACE FOR RENT
PHONE 365-5210.

AUMOST NEW: Hotpoint 30” range. Flat
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NOW IN STOCK

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Preter retired or older couple. 365-5376

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TWO Plus bedroom
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FURNISHED bachelor suites, close in
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ONE bdrm. furnished apartment in
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