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...earliest stages. Doctors have recommended that six months after the President's discharge from the hospital he should undergo another colonoscopy, a visual examination of the colon (see diagram). They will check his blood regularly for carcinoembryonic antigen, a chemical marker that may indicate the presence of cancer cells, and examine his lungs, liver and other organs by means of X rays and CAT scans...
...after the first intestinal growth was discovered. But he defended the decision not to carry out the procedure at that time. What was discovered, he said, was a pseudopolyp that was clearly not malignant nor likely to become so. He insisted that no other signs suggested the presence of cancer...
...grade-B Hollywood sound stages. But twice in four years Reagan has been brushed by death, and both times he has unfurled his gentle humor and insisted that the play go on. The second drama is just starting. But there is no reason to believe that the threat of cancer will inhibit him any more than the attempted assassination did four years ago. His friends bet it will be just the opposite. He wants this act to be his best, whatever time he may have left...
...power of the state and the Bomb grew up together, they may be confused unconsciously. The trouble is that so many threats are attached to modern life that even something as blatant as a nuclear weapon cannot always be distinguished in an array that includes every terror from cancer and insanity to a telephone call in the middle of the night...
...stiff and tentative, but as he greeted Chinese President Li Xiannian on the sun-drenched South Lawn last week, Ronald Reagan inspired pride rather than pity. The welcoming ceremony was the President's first formal event since leaving Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he underwent major surgery for cancer. Standing at attention beside his guest while a Marine band played the American and Chinese national anthems, the 74-year-old Reagan gave credence to the reports of his splendid recuperation. Nonetheless, the ceremony was shortened to 15 minutes so that Reagan, who lost 7 Ibs. in the hospital, could conserve...