Defeat

In Detroit, golden-haired Sandra Dildine, 3, came home last week from Ann Arbor hospital. The transfusions, examinations and tests were over; there was nothing more the big hospital or the staff of learned doctors could do. But it was a pretty exciting day for Sandra. Through the bright, springlike sunshine, she had a ride home in an ambulance. "Home," she said happily. Home was where her toys were--and the Army had brought her father back from Japan to be with her.

Sandra's trouble: embryonal nephroma or Wilms tumor (named for German Surgeon Marx Wilms, 1867-1918). The disease is an expanding growth of the kidney which rapidly fills the abdomen and hinders normal functions. It usually causes a relatively painless death within six months after diagnosis. The doctors, who might have removed Sandra's kidney if the condition had been discovered sooner, shook their heads. The medical men knew better than anyone else how often modern medicine, with all its touted knowledge and skill, has to stand back and accept defeat.

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