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...stomach at the beginning of the operation, and an in travenous tube in his left arm through which he will receive nourishment in the form of dextrose, a sugar, and Ringer's lactate, a buffer solution. Both tubes will remain in place for several days until he resumes normal bowel movements, after which he can begin eating solid food again. The President is also receiving antibiotics to guard against the possibility of infection, which occurs in 2% or 3% of those who undergo the operation. To relieve the President's postoperative pain, which is expected after such surgery, doctors used...
...seemed almost untouchable, able to slough off political barbs and even an assassin's bullet. His luck had grown so legendary that it was tempting to believe he would again beat the odds, that the polyp in his bowel would be found benign. But last week Dr. Steven Rosenberg, the chief of surgery at the National Institute of Cancer, reminded the nation in a single chilling sentence that Ronald Reagan is a vulnerable human after all. "The President," stated the doctor, "has cancer...
Surgery to slice out two feet of his colon had apparently removed the malignancy from Reagan's bowel, and Dr. Rosenberg quickly explained that the President had a better-than-50% chance to live out his normal life. But the medical experts could not rule out the possibility that cancerous cells had escaped into the bloodstream and, like a microscopic time bomb, seeded themselves in another organ. If cancer should recur, the President could face a long and debilitating course of therapy that would make the heavy burden of the presidency more onerous...
...Rosenberg reported that the malignant cells found in the presidential polyp were moderately well differentiated, suggesting that they are of a fairly slow-growing variety. It was also encouraging, he said, that physicians had found no evidence that the President's cancer had spread beyond the section of the bowel removed during surgery. It was particularly significant that no malignant cells were found in the 15 lymph nodes in the excised section of the colon. These bean-shape structures act to screen the lymph, a watery fluid drained from between the body's cells, for bacteria and abnormal cellular matter...
Several gastroenterologists have publicly declared that Reagan should have undergone a complete colonoscopy when a polyp was discovered in his lower bowel in 1984. They feel certain that the cancerous polyp, then at a less advanced stage, would have been detected at that time. "I don't understand why they didn't do a colonoscopy right then and there," says Dr. Donald Ritt, the San Diego gastro-enterologist who performed colon surgery on the President's brother Neil...