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2 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Thursday, August IS, 1905 . Advice Health Watch Organ transplants involve thousands By Don Kirkman Scrtpps Howard News Service The number of organ transplants in the United States is nearing 8,000 a year, according to the U.S. Office of Organ Transplantation. In 1984, there were 346 heart transplants, 6,948 kidney tranplants, 308 liver transplants and 87 pancreas transplants. The one-year survival rates are 80 percent for heart transplants, 35 to 40 percent for pancreas transplants, 65 percent for liver transplants and 96 percent for kidney transplants if living related donors are the source of the kidney. The government says 100 people are waiting for hearts, 8,000 are waiting for kidneys, 300 are waiting for livers and 30 are waiting for pancreases. The office says 56 medical centers in 27 states perform heart trans­ plants, 33 centers in 11 states perform liver transplants, 16 centers in 11 states perform pancreas transplants and seven centers in five states perform heart-lung transplants. One center in New York City performs lung transplants. Five centers in five states perform artificial heart implants. In 1983, there were 6,509 transplant operations: 172 for hearts, 6,112 for kidneys, 164 for livers and 61 for pancreases. Skateboarding, popularized again in the summer movie hit "Back to the Future," will injure an estimated 350,000 children aged 10 to 14 this year, according to projections based on hospital emergency room data. Medical authorities are urging parents to make their children wear a helmet, gloves and elbow and knee pads and stay out of traffic. The American Cancer Society is urging all women who will have surgery for breast cancer this year to tell their doctors to do a hormone receptor test at the time of surgery. The test has to be done on fresh tissue and reveals whether treatment that blocks or removes estrogen and progesterone mighjt help the woman if a hormone-dependent cancer recurs later. The society reiterated its position that only doctor and patient can deckle whether surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone manipula­ tion or a combination of methods is the best treatment jor each case of breast cancer. The society also says women should clearly discuss with the surgeon whether there will be an interval between a biopsy and further surgery. An estimated 119,000 women will develop breast cancer this year. / President Reagan's nose blemish was the most common and most treatable form of skin cancer but 22,000 Americans this year will develop a much more serious form known as malignant melanoma. The increase has been 6 percent a year since 1973. The American Academy of Dermatology, the Skin Cancer Foundation, the American Cancer Society and the American Medical Association are cooperating to set up hundreds of local skin cancer screening programs. ivo days 's), 40 squamous cell carcinomas (slightly more serious) and 14 malignant melanomas. The most significant finding,, say doctors, is that total body exams instead of just facial exams seem justified by the findings. Thirteen of the 14 melanomas were found on parts of the body that would have been missed by partial exams. One in Manhattan tested 2,239 people over two days and found 250 basal cell carcinomas (the same as Reagan's), 40 squamous DEAR ABBY B y Abigai l Van B u r e n Woman annoyed with fiance's stinginess DEAR ABBY: First off, we are in our mid- 30s, both educated with good incomes. My fiance, "John," is very tight with money. When we eat out, he refuses to leave a tip, no matter how good the service. He says tipping is un­ necessary; I think he is just plain cheap. I've explained that people who wait on tables often work for minimum wage, and count on their tips to supplement their income. He refuses to budge. It's gotten so that every time we enter a restaurant, I can feel my stomach knotting up. John and I take turns picking up the tab, which is only fair. When it's my treat, I always leave a tip. There are may pluses in our relationship, but our philosophies on spending money are worlds apart. This will be the second marriage for both of us, and I never want to go through another divorce. What are your feelings, Abby? MARY (ALIAS) DEAR MARY: Same as yours. You wisely thought that the difference In your philosophies oo spending money was of sufficient Im­ portance to waijant a letter to Dear Abby--and you were right. Regardless of how many "pluses" there are in your relationship, John's penny-pinching reveals a rather mean-spirited pettiness that you may find hard to live with. Don't tie the knot with any man who consistent­ ly puts knots in your stomach. DEAR ABBY: I checked a book out of the public library last November and I must have lost it somewhere, because I have turned this house upside down and I can't find it! I must owe a fortune in fines by now, and I can't tell my parents or they will kill me. What should I do? , I need to know if there is a limit on how much I can be fined. What if the book costs $6 brand new and the fine amounts to a whole lot more? I feel so nervous and guilty, I haven't been back to the library since. Please help me, but don't say where this is from. BOOK LOSER DEAR BOOK LOSER: Every library sets its own policy. At the Los Angeles County Public Library, children are fined 5 cents a day per book for every day the library is open. Adults are fined 15 cents a day. If the fine exceeds the cost of replacing the book, one pays for replacing the book. Should the book be destroyed by a natural disaster such as flood, fire or earthquake-no charge. Go to the library and tell the librarian that the book is lost and be prepared to pay for a replacement.. * * * DEAR ABBY: I am 10 years old and I read your letters every day. I get very disgusted when kids complain about having to Wear hand-me-downs. My mother is a schoolteacher and the pay isn't that great. Mom's best friend has a daughter who's 13, and I get all the i)ice clothes she has outgrown. They're terrific look­ ing, and besides, the jeans are not stiff andlthe sweaters aren't scratchy. Sign me WON'T GO NEAR BLOOMINGDALE'S CONFIDENTIAL TO R.M., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: Thomas Edison said, "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living.beings, we are still savages." I'm with Tom. (Problems? Write to Abby. For a personal, unpublish­ ed reply, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Ab­ by, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038. All cor­ respondence is confidential.) Hiding marital spats could harm children By Patricia McCormack United Press International NEW YORK -- Parents who hide their fights from the children are probably only fooling themselves if they believe the kids aren't tuned in to their problems. Children of all ages pick up on marital or financial problems de­ spite parents' attempts to hide them, says Dr. Nancy Roeske, child psychiatrist and professor of psy­ chiatry at the University of Indiana Medical School in Indianapolis. Kids seem to have a special radar that picks up Signals about any trou­ ble, Roeske says, and that is unfor­ tunate because family discord is among the greatest threats to a child's sense of security. "Children are very sensitive to their social environment because it is very important to them," Roeske said. Most people against 'Star Wars': poll WASHINGTON (UPI) - Over 50 percent of the public opposes the president's "Star Wars" program -- a figure that jumps to nearly 75 percent if the missile defense were -to violate a 1972 arms agreement, a new poll shows. Fifty-three percent of the sample survey disapproved of the space- based missile defense, while 41 per­ cent said they supported it and 5 percent had no opinion, according to The Washington Post-ABC News noil, published Wednesday. But only 26 percent of those sur­ veyed -- one in four -- said they would support development of the missile defense if it forced the Unit- qjl States to violate the 1972 ABM treaty, reported the poll, published by The Washington Post. * That treaty prevents the United States and the Soviet Union from developing or deploying anti-ballis­ tic missile systems. The poll surveyed 1,506 people from July 25 to July 29 and found the majority of those asked disap­ proved of the Strategic Defense Initiative. Popularly known as "Star Wars," after a popular motion picture of the same name, the SDI promises to protect the United States from nu­ clear missile attack, supporters say. Critics say research for Star Wars would cost billions -of dollars and doubt such a program would actual­ ly work. Poll responses divided predict­ ably ,along political lines, with the strongest support for the Star Wars program found among Reagan sup­ porters, Republicans and conserva­ tives. Democrats expressed the strongest opposition to the space- based weaponry. The division became even sharper along gender lines. 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Roeske, who also is the American Psychiatric Association's represen­ tative to the National Consortium on Child Mental Health Services, said children who sense unspoken con­ flict at home may act up in school in an attempt to work out the problem. She told of one boy who suddenly became aggressive at school and developed fears about entering cer­ tain rooms of his home without his parents. Talking with the parents, Roeske learned they were having marital difficulties. She said the child's new behavior and fears were his way of forcing mom and dad to work together and to communicate. Roeske said if problems exist at home, parents can provide needed reassurance by telling the children in simple language about any dis­ tress that's occurring. When youngsters have anxiety they express it in different ways, the child psychiatrist says. First graders, for example, may cry or wet their pants during the first week of school. Preteens may be­ come aggressive, fail to perform to their abilities or withdraw. Teen­ agers may try to solve the problem by skipping school, trying drugs or drinking. Parents should seek professional help, Roeske says, when a child suddenly can't function in his environment. "When a nine-year-old suddenly can't function in his environment, refuses to go to school, or becomes very aggressive, you also have to look at whether something is going on organically,,';, sJfe. said. "Every chift^yttb a problem needs a thorough physical examina- tion. tor example, at nine and ten the child is entering an age when diabetes or epilepsy may begin tb show up." - Parents should also tell the child with a sudden behavior probleift that they are there to help, not to blame. "Tell him his behavior is a puzzle and you need his help to fit it togeth­ er and come up with an answer," Roeske said. Parents shouldn't label them­ selves failures if they are unable to help the child. "They certainly should not feel ashamed about the problem or think it's necessarily due to bad parent­ ing," Roeske says. "And they should seek help when­ ever a situation, especially a school situation, begins to worry them-, even if others discount the seriousness. • "As a parent you have to be in' strumental in asking questions and getting the best treatment," she said. "This te-your Hrhild, and 4t'» your right as a parent to get the evaluations you want and the expla­ nations that you can understand." system. The findings of the Washington Post-ABC News poll conflicted with other recent surveys, which indicat­ ed strong support for the adminis­ tration's space weapons program. A poll conducted in May for the Heritage Foundation said 69 percent of those surveyed supported deploy­ ment of the space defense system, even if it required the United States to withdraw from existing arms control agreements. 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