LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: EXPERIMENTAL CANCER TREATMENT

To the Editor:

Please allow me to tell your readers about a medical treatment that has been effective in combatting certain cancers, but is not widely available. I have cancer, and there is a new treatment (already available for prostrate cancer) that has been approved as an experimental treatment for breast cancer and bone cancer at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Its commercial name is Metastron, and it is not chemotherapy. It is radiation treatment, but at a cellular level. I don't believe that this treatment is generally available for anyone elsewhere except for prostrate, but Barnes has a permit to use it experimentally on other forms of cancer.

Metastron has evidently had a fairly high success rate, and I think that cancer patients of this area that might be affected by this should be made aware that there is treatment that may be available to them at Barnes. If anybody is interested they should contact Barnes Hospital. My name is Tom Lett III, my number's 335-0909. You can either call me or Dr. Marie Taylor at Barnes to confirm this. I'm not certain this treatment is available locally. If it is, I doubt that they're allowed to give it experimentally.

Tom Lett III

Cape Girardeau