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...review of more than 2,000 research studies made in the past three years, the report repeats that cigarette tars can cause lung cancer; it depressingly documents further evidence that the weed can bring on peptic ulcers, aortic aneurysm, cancer of the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus and bladder. A two-pack-a-day smoker aged 55 to 64, says the report, has 34 times more chance of dying of lung cancer than a nonsmoker. But an equally grave danger may be coronary heart disease caused by the massive doses of nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes...
...tramp car where they had sunk temporary roots, and pushed them into a new Formica wonder in a housing development. They run their, lives not by push-cards, but by a series of such disorderly urges as lust, the desire to kill, hunger, and pressure on the bladder. And they choose to ignore the Health Services, the schools, the police, and the rules in general...
...system of lenses and a cable of glass fibers, less than one-quarter of an inch in thickness, inserted through the urethra, to carry the intense light from a 1 00,000-ft. -candle source and to carry back an image of what is reflected from the bladder wall. Using local and spinal anesthesia, the Cook County doctors have been able to see: the inflamed areas in cystitis; a tumor; an obstructed bladder neck; the encroachment of an enlarged prostate gland. Most important, they can pinpoint the exact location of a tumor or ulcer...
With one or more television screens, each showing a small bladder area enlarged to a 7-in. diameter, any number of doctors or students can look inside the patient's bladder simultaneously. There is far less chance of a diagnostic oversight when the physician can re-ex amine his findings on tape, and his observations are instantly checked by colleagues. At later stages of treatment, or if the patient moves away and is treated by another doctor, the color videotape record will recall accurately and precisely what the original condition...
Color TV inside the body has been tried for examining the stomach, but the advantages over conventional gastroscopy are not so great as in the less accessible bladder. While moderate bleeding from the bladder wall, or the churning of heavy urinary sediment, may obscure the TV cystoscope's view, this blurring is usually only temporary. The pictures generally are clear and sharp-and in remarkably true color...