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 I I I I I 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 I H I I A M CCMMGMTV SERVICES IPREjfENTE EASEIICN SRCW/RANCIE FEFFCCTIONS CF « 3 A C E St FFICCEFi ÿ n tU id u w n if '. 9 1 / f a c i a / 9 /ia n /fo 04o: / l e / / 9 ^ y i t 9 l /O n io n ¿Ove. f a //ie 4985 (635 New Lottery's (Continued from page 11 "L ik e the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, a lot of people have re­ ceived a happy change in their life­ style with Game One paying more than $4.7 million in major cash prizes. In addition, more than $7.5 million in the small $2 and $5 prizes have been paid to winners by Lot­ tery Retails." he added “ With the launch o f our second 'instant win' ticket game, truly," Smith conclud- ed The Sky's the L im it." * • • * V 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 9 { < n p 9 i a n b o m f a n e fa e u w / t y - 520 MMi' / i / i d e O t/case 9 i e d & 9 / i e a / f a t s / 4944 3 ocï 2 2 n d & 9 /a n c e c 0 A UNITED W a W a VGTNCV- FUNDRAISING EVENT