SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2016
Summer Reading program C AR C HRONICLES —
to ‘Feed Your Mind’
And the
In conjunction with the
Siuslaw Public Library’s
Adult Summer Reading pro-
gram, the Friends of the
Library will hold a free food
event.
This “Feed Your Mind”
event will be held Tuesday,
July 19, from noon to 3 p.m.,
in the Bromley Room at the
main branch on Ninth Street..
In keeping with this year’s
Adult Summer Reading
theme, “Exercise Your Mind,”
the Friends are featuring food
and games to feed your brain.
Games planned for the event
include Sudoku, puzzles and
other brain-exercising games.
A fun and friendly Scrabble
tournament for competitive
word lovers will also be
organized. Food offerings will
highlight those known to feed
the brain, including salmon,
walnuts, flax seed, beans,
whole grains, greens, blueber-
ries and dark chocolate.
These foods provide nutri-
ents such as omega-3 fatty
acids and antioxidants deter-
mined to be essential for
healthy brain function.
All lunch dishes will be
prepared using recipes from
the library’s extensive cook-
book collection. As this event
will strive to be a zero-waste
event, food will be served
on earth-friendly Durable
Dishware from the Florence
Master Recyclers.
There is no charge to attend
this fun-filled food and game
event.
For more information visit
the Siuslaw Public Library in
person, call 541-997-3132 or
visit the library’s website at
www.siuslawlibrary.org.
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I
selected the title for this
edition of Car Chronicles
for a variety of reasons:
originally it was because the
car count keeps climbing with
the recent addition of a 1968
Ford Fairlane, the latest acqui-
sition to park in the garage
(and by the time this article
goes to print, it will be deliv-
ered shortly thereafter to
another driveway in
Portland!).
As I went to add it to the
list I’ve been tracking, I
thought I would conduct a sur-
vey on the variety and num-
bers of each brand or type of
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h, how the pendulum doth
swing! Of course, I’m
referring to the use of the
PSA test for prostate cancer
screening. It has swung from
screening men every year begin-
ning at age 50 to no screening at all
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vehicle that I’ve owned over
the years — and in that
process discovered four more
that were missing!
So now the count actually
stands at 96 vehicles, not
counting three tractors, unless
of course there are others that
I’ve still forgotten to add.
(I sure hope my wife does-
n’t read this edition)
I thought it might be enter-
taining, not necessarily inter-
esting, to quickly summarize
the survey results.
Although there has been
considerable vehicle make up
over the years, Ford certainly
leads the race with total 25
vehicles. And although there
has been a variety of styles
including station wagons,
sedans and motorhomes, pick-
ups top the list with seven, fol-
lowed by six different T-Birds.
I’m obviously a Ford guy,
even one of my military jeeps
was a Ford.
Chasing the pack in second
place and closing the gap is
Jeep, with 24 vehicles, of
which one quarter were mili-
tary vehicles — and over half
were CJ or Wrangler variants.
for any man.
Prior to the late 1980s, prostate
cancer screening was accom-
plished by the finger, known as the
Digital Rectal Exam (DRE). The
problem with the DRE was that by
the time an abnormal prostate
gland was felt by a physician, the
cancer was often long gone.
When that was our only method
of screening, 21 percent of newly
diagnosed men already had
metastatic prostate cancer.
One can imagine the hopes of
men and their families when the
PSA test came along in the late
1980s and was able to signal
prostate problems, including
prostate cancer, years before the
DRE would show any abnormality.
All of a sudden there seemed to
be a better way of finding early
prostate cancer. This was about the
time I turned 50 and there was not
much discussion about being tested
— it was just done…fortunately.
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'”Ford” and “Jeep” are four-
letter words?)
I’ve had a lot of fun over
the years with the variety of
Jeeps, and there is no doubt
that a Wrangler is still my
favorite daily driver — they’re
versatile, hold their value and
they're so darn fun to drive!
At a distant third place and
probably not ever catching up
is Volkswagen at 13, with the
bulk being bugs. The 1960s
vintage bugs were certainly
my favorite for some of the
same reasons as Wranglers.
A 1977 Super Beetle
spoiled me on VWs with its
early-vintage computerized
brain box that continuously
left me — okay, my ex-wife
— stranded. After three
attempts to solve it in as
many different VW shops, it
got traded in... for what else?
A Ford pickup!
The next closest manufac-
turer on the track is the
General Motors family, also
with 13, but shared among
Chevy, GMC, Caddy,
Oldsmobile and Buick.
Mercedes Benz came in at
20 00
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In 2007, Hans Lilja and col-
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Malmo Preventive Medicine Study
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could predict a future risk of devel-
oping prostate cancer.
The investigators went on to
show that 80 percent of advanced
cancers (T3, T4 or metastatic at
diagnosis) occurred in men with
PSA levels above the median at
those ages.
In 2009, the American
Urological Association (AUA)
issued new clinical guidelines
regarding early detection of
prostate cancer and the PSA test.
The AUA decided waiting until
age 50 was missing too many men
and recommended the PSA test
should be offered at age 40, along
with a comprehensive risk assess-
ment. The AUA said future risk of
prostate cancer was closely related
to a man's PSA score and a base-
line PSA level above the median
for age 40 was a strong predictor of
future prostate cancer.
So, there we were, rolling along
with prostate cancer mortality
dropping 40 percent and the
National Cancer Institute reporting
40-70 percent of that drop being
directly attributed to PSA screen-
ing.
Then came the USPSTF’s con-
troversial recommendation that no
man should receive PSA screening
— period. This was at a time when
91 percent of newly diagnosed
men had localized disease only 4
percent of newly diagnosed men
were metastatic!
The USPSTF said that over-
diagnosis and over-treatment
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nine. There is a smattering of
Mopar, AMC and other for-
eign makes that completes the
race line-up, but none in sub-
stantial standing.
The current 1968 Ford
Fairlane was a quirky acquisi-
tion; it caught my eye nearly
two years ago down in
Canyonville because it was so
clean and original. I spotted it
again last spring, when we
were down there camping
again, and it soon found its
way to our home.
It has not quite 49,000
miles on the odometer and is
amazingly original and solid.
It drives very nice and nearly
everything on the car func-
tions. It didn’t take long to
spruce it up and get bored
with it unfortunately!
And incidentally, Sonny
and Cher’s song “The Beat
Goes On” was released in
1967 and a huge hit with
attempts to replicate it by
numerous other artists. It was
playing the airwaves on the
AM radio as the ’68 Fairlane
rolled out the dealership
doors.
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resulted in more harm, such as
incontinence and impotence, than
benefit of lives saved. The USP-
STF disregarded the above Malmo
Study.
Unfortunately, when the USP-
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mendation of no PSA screening,
the AUA dumped its baseline rec-
ommendation and instead recom-
mended men between ages 55 and
69 discuss PSA testing with their
doctors. The AUA said this revised
recommendation was “evidence-
based” whereas its earlier recom-
mendation was “consensus-opin-
ion.”
With this change, the AUA
effectively turned its back on
young men between the ages of 40
and 55.
The Large Urology Group
Practice Association (LUGPA), of
which Oregon Urology Institute
(OUI) is a member, broke with the
AUA at that point, remaining com-
mitted to the baseline PSA test
while adjusting the recommended
age from 40 to “during one’s 40s.”
They had experienced the life-
saving effects of baseline testing,
confirming the Malmo Study find-
ings.
Jump now to June 2016, to a
prospective evidence-based study
of U.S. men that finds mid-life
PSA levels can accurately predict
who will be more likely to develop
prostate cancer and, even more sig-
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high risk of developing lethal
prostate cancer in the next 30
years.
This prospective study validates
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