TV To Focus on
Cancer in Blacks
Dr. Seymour Grufferman, director
of epidemiology at the
Comprehensive Cancer Center, will
discuss cancer among black people
Saturday and Sunday on local
television.
The assistant professor will appear
Saturday at 6 p.m. on Channel ll's
"Black UrJimited" program. Sunday
at 9:30 a.m. he will be interviewed on
Channel 28's "Black Focus."
On both programs, Grufferman
will interpret the new "Atlas of
Cancer Mortality Among U.S.
Nonwhites," published this month
by the National Cancer Institute.
He also will describe early
warning signs of cancers striking
many blacks and he'll explain how to
get advice on low or no cost cancer
screening by calling the Duke Cancer
Information Service (286-2266 in the
Durham area; toll free 800-672-0943
elsewhere in North Carolina).
The cancer atlas shows that blacks
have a higher death rate than whites
for cancers of the mouth and throat,
esophagus, stomach, pancreas,
larynx, prostate, uterine cervix and
for multiple myeloma (a cancer of the
bone marrow).
Whites have higher rates than
blacks for cancer of the colon and
rectum, breast, ovary, testis, kidney,
skin, brain and for leukemia and
lymphoma.
Grufferman has discussed cancer
among black people previously on
radio stations in Raleigh and
Greensboro.
W'1
CONSTRUCTION OKAYED—k $34,811,987 building permit to
complete the bedtower and ancillary sections of Duke Hospital
North was issued Monday by the Durham city inspections
Division. The ancillary section is pictured above with the VA
Hospital (right) and the Eye Center in the background. The
bedtower will be to the left of this section. The permit
approved this week is the largest one issued so far for the new
hospital. Other permits totalling $7,420,000 were issued
previously. Duke Hospital North will cost a total of $92 million
and will house 616 beds. Combined with the 353 beds that will
remain at the current hospital and 39 beds at the Eye Center,
the medical center will have a total of 1,008 beds when the new
facility opens in April 1979. (Photo by Ina Fried)
Patterns Could Mean Early MS Diagnosis
DR. SEYMOUR GRUFFERMAN
The National Multiple Sclerosis
Society has awarded a two-year
$118,691 grant to a scientist here who
developed a possible blood test for
MS last year and is continuing his
research on the chronic and often
crippling nervous system disease.
Lee Carey, chairman of the
Triangle chapter of the organization,
announced the grant which has been
made to Dr. Nelson L. Levy,
assistant professor in Duke's
Division of Immunology.
In June, 1976, Levy and his
colleagues reported in the New
England Journal of Medicine that
white blood cells taken from patients
with multiple sclerosis formed large
rosette patterns around human skin
cells that had been infected with
measles virus in laboratory
experiments.
Kinston's Man's Gift to Surgery
'Would Please My Father Most'
They reasoned that since white
cells from patients with other
neurological disorders or from
healthy individuals did not form the
same pronounced rosette patterns,
the phenomenon, which is
detectable before physical
symptoms, could help physicians
diagnose the disease much earlier.
Levy said he will continue to study
the characteristic clumping of white
blood cells to determine how
accurate it would be as a diagnostic
and research tool.
He said he also plans to investigate
whether the rosette formation is
more common in relatives of MS
patients then in others and whether
a particular gene carries the trait.
More Susceptible
"It may be that this gene alone
cannot cause the disease but does
render a person more susceptible to
other factors which play a role in
causing MS," the scientist said.
MS patients participating in the
study will be drawn from a group
who live within a 150-mile radius of
Durham, Levy said. Several of their
families have also agreed to assist the
researchers.
Patients with diseases other than
MS will be drawn from the hospital.
"The formation of rosettes in these
studies has allowed us to recognize a
difference between MS patients and
the general population," Levy said.
Related to Cause
"While this tells us little about the
cause of the disease, it may well
signal the presence of a cellular or
biochemical abnormality that does
relate to the cause."
Levy said MS society chapters in
Greensboro, Charlotte and the
Triangle area gave "excellent
assistance" in accumulating a patient
population large enough for the
research.
Multiple sclerosis, which is
usually first discovered in adults
between the ages of 20 and 40,
currently afflicts about a half million
Americaiis, according to statistics
published by the National MS
Society.
Alban K. Barrus Jr. of Kinston has
made a $50,000 memorial gift in the
name of his father to the Department
of Surgery.
Barrus' relationship with Duke
dates from when he was 11 and spent
a month here while surgeons helped
knit back together multiple fractures
received when his bicycle was hit by
an automobile. He is now 44.
His father, Alban K. Barrus Sr.,
died in 1975 at the age of 79. He had
been a surgical patient here a
number of times and in 1969
provided an earlier gift to the
department. The Barrus Surgical
Conference Room (Room 3031,
yellow zone) is named in his honor.
Announcement of the $50,000 gift
was made by Dr. David C. Sabiston
Jr., chairman of the Department of
Surgery, who had been the elder
Barrus' physician.
"I tried to think," Barrus said,
"what I could do that would please
my father the most. Years ago, when
he had one of his first operations, his
confidence in Dr. Sabiston gave him
the will to try to live.
"I personally believe that North
Carolina and the South are very
fortunate to have an institution of
the quality of Duke," Barrus said.
"and anything I can do to perpetuate
it is worthwhile."
Barrus said his father's interest in
Duke also was stimulated by a long
and close friendship with Eddie
Cameron, retired director of the
Duke Athletic Association.
The elder Barrus established the
Barrus Construction Co., a highway
construction firm, and was chairman
of the board. His son is vice
president of the company which, in
1%9, became a subsidiary of the
Ashland Oil and Refining Co.
Services to Elderly
Dr. David C. Dellinger, associate
professor in the School of Business
Administration, will discuss "The
OARS Project: Resource Allocation of
Services to the Elderly" on Tuesday,
Feb. 1 at 3:30 in 224 Social Sciences
Building.
All faculty, students and other
interested persons are invited to
attend.
Dellinger's talk is part of the
continuing Duke Colloquia on
Health Policy sponsored by the
Institute of Policy Sciences and
Public Affairs.
The Week on Campus
January 28-Febraaiy 4,1977
Event and Time
PUkc
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PERFORMING ARTS (684-4059):
Fri. (1/28), 8:15 p.m. National Opera Co.: "The Barber of Seville"
Fri. (1/28), and Sat., 8:15 p.m. and Sun., 3 p.m. Karumu: Reader's Theatre
Tues., 8:30 p.m. D.U.U.: "Camino Real"
SPEAKERS (684-4059):
Mon., 8 p.m. D.U.U. Major Speakers: Will D. Campbell, director. Page
Comnuttee for Southern Churchmen, "Whatever Happened to the New South?"'
MUSIC (684-4059):
Sat., 8:15 p.m. Music Dept. Sr. Recital: Robert EUwood, bass
Sun., 7 p.m. Chapel Recital: J. Benjamin Smith,
Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Oi^an
Fri. (2/4), 8:30 p.m. D.U.U. Preservation Hall Jazz Band
RELIGIOUS (684-2572):
Sun., 11 a.m. Worship service: Rev. Herbert O. Edwards,
associate professor, Kack Church Studies, Divinity School
ATHLETICS (684-3212):
Sat., 3 p.m. Women's gymnastics meet
Tues., Men's wrestling: Duke vs. UNC
Tues., Women's basketball: Duke vs. NCSU
Wed., 7:30 p.m. Men's basketball: Duke vs. Wake Forest
OTHER-
Sat., 10 a.m. Satiuday Symposium: Back to School, 210-A Bivins
Dr. Jean O'Barr, director, continuing education
Mon., 5:30 p.m. "Planned Vigor" orientation Varsity "D" Rm., Indoor Stadium
FILMS: Fri. (1/28) 7, 9:30 and midnight "Seven Beauties," Bio. Sci. Aud.; Sat. and Sun.. 7
and 9 p.m. "TTie Challer\ge," Page; Thurs., 7 and 9:30 p.m., "Bed and Board," Bio. Sci. Aud.;
Fri. (2/4), 7,9:30 and midtught "The Story of Adele H." Bio. Sci. Aud. (Admission Charge)
E. Duke Music Rm.
Chapel
Page
Chapel
Card Gym
Indoor Stadium