PORTLAND/OBSERVER Thursday M ar. 18, 1971
Computer Chatter for Women
Dessert
supper
Mrs. Amctta T. Brown. Social Worker; Mrs. Martha B. Jordan
Director of Social Services. Mrs. Winona Edwards, Social Work
Aide nd Parent Co-Ordinator. Planning the Adult Education
classes for parents of Early f.'hildhood Education.
Emanuel combat
cancer
Cobalt is one of the big guns in
the war against cancer.
Ten y e a r s ago, in 1 9 6 1 ,
E m a n u e l became the fir s t
hospital I n O r e g o n to open a
cobalt t h e r a p y department.
D u r i n g 1970,7,694 treatments
helped patients fight the disease.
A Cobalt department is an ex
pensive one to build and the per
sonnel who s t a f f it must have
h i g h I y-specialized, extensive
education and experience.
Opening the d e p a r t m e n t
at Emanuel, i n o t-fo r-p ro fit
h o s p i t a l , meant that this
im portant means of combatting
cancer would be available to a lot
of patients at the lowest possible
cost. Having the department in a
hospital a l s o offers convience
to the referring physician a n d
a s s u r e s him fast access to
Emanuel’ s pathology, medical
r e c o r d s and tumor registry
service.
The d e c i s i o n to build the
department also Included plans
fo r a n t i c I p a t e d expansion.
O riginal r e m o d e l i n g of the
hospital basement fo r cobalt in
cluded additional space to meet
future needs. Remodeling had to
provide necessary shielding for
the beams of the machines — an
important requirement, gove ren
od by rig id regulations. The en
tire cobalt-therapy department
Below gtcund 1 e ye 1. P rim ary
beams on the machines can point
only toward the flo o r or toward
the earth-backed outside founda
tion. Elsewhere, concrete walls
more than two feet thick b l o c k
scattered radiation. Providing
all of this special construction at
ing, of c o u r s e, was a m ajor
economy measure.
Then in 1968, the p l a n n e d
expansion was completed.
P art of t he original planning
had also taken into consideration
the h a lf-life of Cobalt 60. T h i s
means that the 2,150-curie cobalt
source in the o r ig in a 1 ’ ’work
horse" unit through which some
80 trillio n gamma-ray producing
atoms disintegrate e a c h second
to k ill cancer cells— must be re
placed about every five y e a r s ,
after atomic disinteration has
halved its output.
When the departme: t was ex
panded, a new cobalt machine was
a d d e d that perm its treating
patients at closer distances— use
ful in dealing with cancers of the
head and neck. The second unit
required a less powerful cobalt
source because of the s h o t t e r
treatment distance— and so th e
$13,400 piece of cobalt from th e
o r i g i n a l machine, by then
only half as strong as it had been
when it was new. was transferred
to the new machine where itwould
serve patients’ need fo r five addi
tional years.
(The cobalt source is about the
size of t h r e e dimes stacked to
gether. It is housed in a welded
steel jacket within a tungsten and
lead ball which weighs more than
1 1/2 tons.)
Patients served by the unit
range from the very young to the
very old. Average length of treat
ment time is about 4 1/2 minutes.
Cobalt is
b a s ic a lly
an
' ’ Outpatient" department-people
can live at home and just coine in
fo r treatments.
Patients are watched constantly
while under the machine. In the
original therapy room built in 1961
attendants watch patients thi ough
an 8 x 12 inch rectangle of lead
glass four inches thick. In the
second therapy room, a closed
c irc u it television camera focuses
d ire ctly on the patient, so that
attendants at the central deskin
the department can watch both
patients at once.
Since 1967, other hospitals in
the area have followed Emanuel’ s
lead inprovidingcobalt fa cilitie s-
Such departments areanexample
of modern hospital development
as a “ health bank" — agrowing
center fo r a vast range of vita lly
needed community services.
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On Wednesday, A p ril 7, we are
having a fam ily dessert supper
and Job F a ir at Center 3, 2710
N.E. 14th. Every center w ill have
its own table. Each fam ily is ask
ed to bring a favorite dessert....
large enough to serve the mem
bers of that fam ily. Coffee and
punch w ill be provided. E a c h
fam ily is also asked to bring
enough plates, cups, napkins and
silverware fo r each member of
the fam ily.
A fte r supper several agencies
w ill explain th e ir program to all
present. Some of the agencies
which w ill be represented are:
Urban League, Telephone Com -
pany. Pacific Power andLightCo
General E le ctric Co., 4-C, M u lti-
Service Center, Multnomah Co .
Welfare, PMSC, IBM, Bonner -
v ille Power and Light, Freedom
Bank, Model C ities, and others
that w ill be contacted later.
Child care and transportation w ill
be provided. This w ill be anoth
e r good time to get together and
have fun with some of the other
fam ilies from your center and
also learn about other agencies
in the community.
They got
rhythm
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irrita n ts . Drugs can help treat
asthma. Maybe music can, too.
Some people with asthma su
ffe r from sudden, severe at
tacks. They feel as if they are
choking and cannot get enough
a ir to breathe. The experience
can be te rrify in g , especially fo r
young children.
If a doctor can locate the
ir r ita n t that is the source of
the allergy, desensitizing in
jections can be administered.
And further attacks can be alle
viated or prevented.
In addition to medication, an
unusual approach to help asth
matic children is underway at the
National Jewish Hospital and Re
search Center in Denver. Some
of the children there have had
asthma all their lives. Because
of their illness, their emotion
al and physical development -
often lags behind that of other
youngsters their age. Music the
rapy is spurring th e ir progress.
The children learn to make
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Even pre-schoolers learn
to
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and melodies they hear fir s t.
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Music makes good vibrations.
It does more fo r asthmatic -
children. Attempts at rhythm,
harmony, and coordination build
endurance, develop m u s c le
strength, and improve breath
control as well as posture.And
the youngsters also learn
to
create and accomplish.
Music is an unusual— not
standard — treatment fo r asthma.
To find out more about tre a t-
m e n t and causes of asthma
and other diseases of the lungs
contact your local tuberculosis
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