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...President's doctors stood fast, explaining that they had decided against a scan of the entire bowel after the 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...
Still, knowing what he knows now, Cattau admitted, he will recommend that the 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...
...Walter Karney, a Navy captain and the internist who coordinated the President's annual physical examination in 1985, said last week that Dr. Edward Cattau, a member of the examining team, had in an April letter "strongly urged" a colonoscopy after the second intestinal growth was discovered. But White House sources deny that the letter, written a month after the examination, conveyed any sense of urgency...
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