Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 15, 1994 TAG: 9406160015
SECTION: NATL/INTL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
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WASHINGTON - Ending a search as old as his administration, President Clinton is ready to fill the top job at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The president said Tuesday he will nominate Gilbert F. Casellas, a prominent Hispanic attorney who is general counsel of the Air Force.
In its announcement, the White House said that Casellas, a former president of the Hispanic National Bar Association, is ``known for his ability to handle complex issues and for building consensus among divergent groups.''
- Associated Press
Blood test may help in prostate cancer
NEW YORK - An experimental blood test that can give clues to whether cancer cells have escaped from the prostate gland may eventually save thousands of patients from surgery each year, researchers said Tuesday.
Doctors surgically remove the prostate now if they think the cancer is confined to the gland.
So, in a patient with apparently confined disease, if the blood test shows that the cancer may have escaped the prostate instead, he and his doctor may decide to skip the operation and try other treatment such as radiation, researchers said.
More than 100,000 prostate removals will be done this year, and routine use of the blood test might have reduced that number by 25,000 to 35,000, estimated Dr. Carl Olsson, a member of the team that developed the test.
- Associated Press
Link between jobs, cancer suspected
Women in electrical jobs are 38 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than other working women, according to a new study that found an even higher death rate among female telephone installers, repairers and line workers.
``It's the strongest epidemiological evidence so far that breast cancer may be related to electromagnetic fields in some way, but it's still not very strong evidence,'' said University of North Carolina researcher Dana Loomis, chief author of the study to be published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
- Newsday
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