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...sexual intercourse. Unfortunately, these warnings are often overlooked by women and their doctors. Cheri Bates, 31, of Seattle, describes the cramps she suffered as "outrageous," but she assumed they were "normal." By the time her condition was discovered, scar tissue covered her reproductive organs and parts of her bladder and intestines...
Bethesda Naval is the hospital of Presidents. Ronald Reagan went there last year to have a cancerous polyp removed from his colon. Richard Nixon was treated for viral pneumonia at the 500-bed facility in 1973. Lyndon Johnson had his gall bladder excised at the hospital in 1965 then proudly displayed his scar to anyone who cared to see it. Bethesda, in the northwest outskirts of Washington, D.C., is also a jewel in the crown of the U.S. military health care system, whose 688 facilities care for the nation's wounded in time of war. But presidential patronage notwithstanding...
...wife who lived next door there had a miscarriage. The lady who lived here, she had two miscarriages. Kidney cancer over there, and the home here, the wife died in childbirth. This next family, the dog had a seizure disorder, and their little girl had terrible stomach and bladder problems." Leistner has four children, all in their 20s. "One of my daughters has a seizure disorder; she tried to commit suicide in 1983. Another daughter, she's hyperthyroid; we almost lost her to cancer of the cervix at 21. My former husband has a liver impairment...
...cancer do seem to be appearing too frequently, at least in Holbrook. Between 1979 and 1983, the town lost 24 men to lung cancer; 15 such deaths would be expected in a town with Holbrook's age distribution and population. During the same period, Holbrook men were dying of bladder cancer at a rate more than three times the average, and fatal uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers occurred at more than twice the normal rate...
...smoke stand the same chance of getting uterine cancer as those who abstain. Even for older women the benefit is as evanescent as, well, smoke. Any protection against uterine cancer that smoking offers, scientists say, is far outweighed by the enhanced risk of developing cancers of the throat, stomach, bladder, pancreas and lungs, as well as heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis. Comments Dr. Harvey Fineberg, dean of the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health: "To smoke cigarettes in order to reduce your risk of uterine cancer is like looking for a gas leak with a lighted match...