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...very well," Oller announced about an hour after the surgery was completed. "The operation went absolutely perfectly." There were no signs of the complications that sometimes develop during or shortly after major surgery, such as excessive bleeding or infection of the wound. More important, there was no sign of cancer outside the intestine. "We don't know whether there was cancer in the polyp," said Oller. A definitive answer would be disclosed by the full biopsy tests, which were to be completed on Monday. "But," said the surgeon, "there was no sign of cancer in the patient." In other words...
...will need close monitoring. Polyps have a tendency to recur; the one removed Saturday was the third detected since Reagan became President. Moreover, as many doctors put it, the kind of intestine that repeatedly grows polyps is the kind that has to be watched for signs of cancer...
...through the battery of tests drearily familiar to anyone who has been prepared for major surgery: chest X ray, electrocardiogram and CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan, a kind of super X ray of a large portion of the body. The scan showed no sign of cancer outside the colon. The tests ended about 11 p.m.; Reagan then read for a while (what, no one would say) and fell asleep a bit after midnight. He was awakened at 5 a.m. Saturday for an antibiotic, and went back to sleep for another three hours...
...discovery of the first polyp because it was in fact merely a "pseudopolyp," more an inflammation than an actual growth. In following the course they did, insisted Dr. Edward Cattau, chief of gastroenterology at the naval hospital, the doctors were adhering to the screening guidelines established by the American Cancer Society...
...President undergo more frequent colon examinations. It is now clear, he said, that the President is prone to polyps. In fact, the tendency may run in the President's family. Oller disclosed that the President's brother Neil, 76, a retired California ad executive, was recently diagnosed as having cancer of the colon. Said Oller: "I would recommend that Reagan have a repeat colonoscopy in six months...