Word: treatments
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...HCHP facilities are not hospitals. Difficult cases are referred either to Cambridge Hospital or to one of five Harvard affiliates. Not only does HCHP bring the name of Harvard out to the people of Boston--it also brings the people of Boston in to Harvard teaching hospitals, for treatment by physicians who hold appointments on the Medical School faculty. Officials expect that the present enrollment of 65,000 Boston area residents will increase to between 125,000 and 175,000 in the next five years. By 1982, HCHP should provide Med School faculty members with a sizeable corner...
...also take the lid off health expenditures in this country and leave no incentives for hospitals and physicians to avoid very costly and sophisticated equipment and techniques. The incentives to economize in plans like HCHP have proved that efficiency in health care does not necessitate an impersonal calculus for treatment. In fact, the kind of drastic and impersonal treatment that would be fostered by national health insurance has shown itself to be inefficient. The most economical means of keeping people healthy turns out to be preventive and primary care...
...cancer. Though mastectomies have been favored by U.S. experts as the surest route to survival in cases of breast cancer, some doctors are beginning to have doubts about them. Dr. Samuel Hellman of Harvard's Joint Center for Radiation Therapy points out that radical surgery-or any other treatment, including radiation-is frequently performed so late that the removal of additional tissue is no insurance against a recurrence of the disease; too often, cancerous cells have already spread to other parts of the body far from their original site in the breast. Thus, Hellman and other doctors are stressing...
Radiologists emphasize that implants are no sure cure for cancer of the breast or any other form of the disease -especially if it is detected late. But their experience suggests that the treatment is often just as effective as a mastectomy. For example, Dr. Nisar Syed, who has been doing implants at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center since 1973, says that a year or more after their treatment, 23 out of 24 patients showed no recurrence of breast cancer. In France, where he has treated some 500 women with iridium implants since 1961, Dr. Bernard...
...notes, many women with a suspicious lump in the breast have been extremely reluctant to go to a doctor for fear they would quickly wind up under the knife. By contrast, implants offer them a less menacing option, which may encourage them to seek help earlier-and early treatment, whatever the technique, is still the best way to beat breast cancer...