Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contributions to the Institute, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Neither does he know that the Evening with Champions is among the largest contributors to the Fund. The annual skating exhibition has raised over three quarters of a million dollars over the last 18 years for the research and treatment of childhood cancer...
During the performances at more than 260 prisons -- whose payments for the most part support the group -- the Geese have faced threats of violence and sullen silence. But the challenge in the rehearsal room at the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater is daringly new: to use the tools of theater to break through to the feelings of the sexual deviant. The twelve inmates in the cast, like the 243 other occupants of the maximum-security facility, are serving indeterminate terms for crimes ranging from rape to child molestation...
...York City's program does not ram the mentally ill into institutions. Instead the program gets the extremely ill into the hands of evaluators; who can prescribe treatment and locate housing in community residences for their patients. Opponents to the plan, lead by the American Civil Liberties Union, charge that the program constitutes a violation of individual rights. But the program only plucks those who do violence to others or themselves, and they can be held for no more than 90 days. People who are in need of help will get it now, whereas before the city was powerless...
...surgery without pause was equally disturbing to many physicians. A complete biochemical evaluation of the excised tissue takes a few days, contends Radiation Therapist Robert L. Goodman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The additional time gives patients a chance to seek second opinions and discuss the treatment with loved ones. Says Henderson: "Months or years later, they may become depressed if they feel they were hustled into a decision...
...more inclined to choose mastectomy, following the First Lady's example? Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh, a leading proponent of lumpectomy, thinks not. Most women are aware of the alternatives, he says. Indeed, eleven states have laws requiring doctors to inform breast- cancer patients of all treatment options. Last week, as Mrs. Reagan convalesced, it was already apparent that her battle with cancer was having at least one positive effect: radiologists around the country reported that appointments for mammograms were up sharply...