Page 10, Portland Observer, July 3,1985
1985 Jefferson
High School
Graduate takes
World of
Fashions
Dania Charriuc Danner took
first place in the Mary Walker Aca
demy Annual Inter-High Model
Search in Portland.
After viewing the Ebony Fashion
Fair as a teenager Dama concluded
she had found her future.
"Fashion,*' encouraged by her
loving mother and her many
friends, Dania spent long hours in
her modest home in North Portland
practicing what she had observed by
the beautiful models in the Ebony
Fashion Fair.
In M ay of 198$, Dania's gruelling
practice schedule paid off. She was
selected number ( I ) of 30 models in
the Annual Inter High Model
Search, an affair produced by the
Mary Walker Academy.
Dama will receive a $100.00
scholarship for making the finals of
the contest and a full advanced
modeling scholarship of $2,600.00
with Model Talent Management.
Dania will take advantage of her
scholarship immediately. She will be
visiting the “ Worlds Fashion Cen
ter,” in New York City this summer
to discuss modeling fashions by the
newly discovered designer Scott
Rankins, former Portlander, now
living in New York.
Dania was featured in the Shop
Talk Magazine in May 1983. She is
a protege of Cora Smith, Portland's
own “ Ms. Fashion,” and the
daughter of Lana Danner, Urban
l eague Human Resource Specialist.
Dania is currently modeling for
Meier A Frank doing local fashion
shows as well as charity fund raisers.
The statistics can be misleading,
is one of the least informative state
ments that I can write, yet we all too
often forget this obvious fact. When
W ill Rogers said "When the Okies
left Oklahoma and moved to Cali
fornia, they raised the average intel
ligence in both states," he came
close to the type of statement which
says that we are winning in the fight
against lung cancer. The June 20,
New England Journal o f Medicine
features an article entitled "The
W ill Rogers Phenomenon: State
Migration and New Diagnostic
Techniques as a Source of Mislead
ing Statistics for Survival in Can
cer." This article goes into analysis
of a recent medical study at Yale,
New Haven Hospital and the West
Haven Veterans Administration
Medical Center covering patients
treated for lung cancer between
1977 and 1982.
The study that was re-evaluated
by doctors Fienstein, Sosin and
Wells M P H . had given the Ameri
can Cancer Society and others fuel
to claim (hat survivability of lung
cancer has improved over the past
30 years. Re-evaluation of the data
has indicated that statistical mani
pulation accounted for the total
improvement cited previously. Simi
lar to the Will Rogers statement
about the improved intelligence, this
early study shifted non-sympto-
matic metastasis into a late stage
population thereby letting these
less severe cases shift survivability
to an improved level with no real
change in individual survivability.
As these more advanced cases were
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removed from the early stage popu
lation, this group also showed an
improvement. In other words, as
early diagnosis allowed detection of
metastasis (that provided no symp
toms and were thus undetected in
early studies) these people, who
lived slightly longer than their more
advanced counterparts, were insert
ed into the more advanced staged
population, and provided the im
provement noted over the past 30
years of treatment in the U.S.
Doctors Feinstein and associates
had hoped that with the early detec
tion of these silent metastasis, new
drugs and increased ancillary care
for these patients, an overall im
provement in survivability would
still be found. Their conclusions
were completely opposite. They
cound no increase in survival and
found that the side effects of the
new drugs more than offset any
advances they might have brought.
So where does this new information
lead us. and why did I cite lung can
cer treatment as potentially one of
the greatest cases of quackery in
U.S. history (June 26, 1985 Ob
server).
A friend of mine, Robert Mendle-
son, M .D . recently wrote on the
quackery of cancer treatment in his
national newsletter, the People's
Doctor. He recounted how he had
sat through lectures by Morris Fish-
bein, M .D . (then president of the
American Medical Association) on
the subject of medical quackery.
Fishbeins’ definition of quackery
remains today as (he accepted de
finition of health fraud. This defini
tion includes the "use of unproven
treatments” and "expensive costs"
for same. How can those who treat
lung cancer defend their track rec
ord against this definition of quack
ery? With the recent interpretation
of real survival rates in N .E .J .M .
and the realization that the slight
increase in national survival since
1900 primarily represents the inclu
sion of a growing percentage of
women (who have slightly better
survival) into the statistical base, it
appears that not only have the
standard treatment programs been
unproven in the past, but they now
appear to be proven as virtually
worthless experimentations on the
effects of drugs and irradiation on
humans.
The reason that 1 bother to write
a provocative exposee on quackery
is that the Multnomah County
Medical Society has sponsored a
conference on “ Understanding A
Combating Health Fraud A Quack
ery." This conference which is en
dorsed by nearly every private hos
pital in the area as well as the Ore
gon Medical Association, Oregon
Nurses Association and the Oregon
State Health Division appears to
single out (with the exception of one
hour on psychic surgery) Naturopa
thic approaches to health care as the
single most important threat to pub
lic safety (“ Nutrition Quacks,"
"Quacks Who Specialize in A rthri
tis and Heart Cures," “ Hair Analy
sis," “ Orthomolecular Psychia
try,” “ D M S O ” , etc.) While the
agenda does not specifically men
tion any profession it does include
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bi-lateral nasal specific treatments
as a "medical absurdity" (this ad
justment is limited almost exclusive
ly to the chiropractic and naturo
pathic practices and historically in
the '50’s with osteopathic practice).
While the agenda calls the BNS
"Balloons up the Nose" which inac
curately describes one of the instru
ments of this technique (actually
we use medical quality latex cots)
the numerous opponents of this
treatment fail to mention that
M .D .’s have in their treatment pro
grams, an internal cranial adjust
ment which uses metal forceps to
widen the nasal passages. One past
patient claimed that while he paid
nearly $600.00 for this “ septo
plasty” he did not get nearly the
benefit received from one BNS
treatment given by an associated
(cost $25.00).
While I should feel flattered that
alternative approaches have become
so popular as to cause conferences
and lobbying efforts by traditional
groups to rebuff and interfere with
their growth, my response is more
of outrage that such propaganda
can be disseminated to the general
public in the name of public safety.
I hope that some of the individuals
in the Oregon State Health Associa
tion as well as the other co-sponsor-
ing organizations will approach
this conference with an attitude
other than "don't confuse me with
facts, my mind's already made up,”
and instead open their eyes and ears
to the vast volume of studies which
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