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originally posted 5-29-00 to CANMEDLIB by Jim Henderson <jimh@MLS.CPS.BC.CA>

 

Friday's "Facts & Arguments" column in the Globe & Mail (National Edition, p.A18, Friday, May 26, 2000 mentions a search undertaken by a librarian working at the Canadian Cancer Society in Vancouver which caused changes in the treatment of a cancerous growth on the tailbone of a 2 year old. The librarian was, with little doubt, David Noble, of the BC Cancer Agency library, not the Canadian Cancer Society, as they don't have a librarian. The doctors had consulted with the Mayo Clinic, as it was a rare cancer. However, it wasn't until the girl's grandfather mailed the depressing literature search was the treatment changed from just radiation to radiation and chemotherapy. Survival rates were reported to have improved from 25% to 75% with the dual therapy.

 

Congratulations, David.

 

 

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Northwest Notes / 21(1-2) Jan.-June 2000 / June 19, 2000