cfincER. consu.LTflTion .cumcs in ■ Alaska
Three cancer Specialists, a radiologist,
a pathologist, and a surgeon will spend
the last two weeks in May in Alaska Con
ducting teaching sessions and consulta
tions' on cancer cases with Alaskan physi
cians, The men'are Dr. '77m. Y. Burton,
radiologist; Dr.Dean B.'Seabrook,surgeon;
and Dr. Tarren C. Hunter, pathologist.
They are all professors or associate pro
fessors at the University of Oregon Medi
cal School and have t.ahen an active part
in the Oregon Cancer Control program. !
These sessions will be keld as follows:
Aji chora ge
Fairbanks
Juneau
Ketchikan
May 19 and 20
■May 22 and 23
May 26 and 27
May 29 and 30
Lectures wild, be given to the physicians
on early diagnosis and therapy. Consulta
tions will be held'or. pre- and post-oper
ative cancer cases, as well as pre-cancer
ous ones. Conferences on oral' cancer
will be held also with the dentists.
The Territorial Department of Health,whicl
is sponsoring these sessions made possible
thro\igh Federal Funds, urged that people
who are apparently in excellent health,
but kho have one of the following danger
signals see their private physicians be
fore these conferences are held.
1^ Any sore that does not heal.
2. Any lump expecially in the breast.
Persistent hoarseness.
4'. Bleeding from any of the body openings.
5. Any change in the size or shape of a
wart, mole, s:kin blemish.
Chronic indigestion
7. Any change in the bowel habits.
Note: This release reached this office too
late to be of any value here as far as
the clinic in Anchorage on the 19 and 20
was concerned.
ALASKA ROAD MAP READY
Alaska’s first pocket road map in its
fourth edition is now available. This is
a free service by the Alaska Territorial
Fire Control Service and contains a map'
of Alaska’s main roads, connecting roads
and roads under construction; as well as
a directory of roadhouses, lodges and
sports outfitters. The new edition has a
strip map of the entire length of‘the
Alaska Highway for the first time.
the underlying purpose of the folder is to
spread the gospel of forest and wildlife
conservation, and to enlist public aid and
cooperation in the- prevention of'forest
fires, according to Bill Wallace, of
Anchorage, public relations officer for
the A5CS and originator of thd map folder
in'1944. This year’s edition, he said, .
will bring the total distribution of the
map folder to over 50,000.
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