Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center last week, Hubert Humphrey asked his wife, "Muriel, how are the polls corning out in Minnesota?" That joshing question by a Senator virtually assured of re-election told as much about his condition as his doctors' optimistic prognosis. Though a cancerous bladder had just been removed, the 65-year-old former Vice President had lost none of his spirit, loquaciousness and will to survive-physically or politically...
Probably 30,000 Americans will find out this year that they have cancer of the bladder, a disease that strikes three times as many men as women. But if it is caught early enough-as it apparently was in Humphrey's case-the odds of beating it are better than even. Convinced that he had removed the entire tumor, a walnut-size growth at the base of the bladder, Humphrey's surgeon, Dr. Willet F. Whitmore, said confidently, "As far as we're concerned, the Senator is cured...
Prompt Treatment. Humphrey's chances were vastly improved by the fact that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination...
Known as a radical cystectomy, it involved removal not only of the bladder (the body's reservoir for urine) but of other parts associated with the urinary tract as well: the prostate gland, the lymph nodes-which are being further examined to see if the cancer has spread to them-and fatty tissue around the bladder, and part of the urethra (the tube leading from the bladder through the penis). Such extensive surgery, Whitmore later explained, is routine in radical cystectomies (which his team performs at a rate of 80 to 100 a year), and does not mean that...
...long queues. It can take up to two months to get an appointment to see a doctor, and such visits average about ten minutes. Referral to a specialist often takes two years, and the wait for elective surgery (like the removal of a troublesome but not too dangerous gall bladder) can take five years...