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Billiard Game. Betty S. has an inoperable malignant tumor of the esophagus. She is one of two dozen patients participating in a promising new program for fighting advanced cancer of the mouth, upper respiratory system, cervix, brain, pancreas and other areas that until recently have been virtually untreatable. Fermilab's weapon is a beam of high-energy neutrons produced by its linear accelerator. Directed against certain tumors, the neutrons can be more effective than the X rays normally used in cancer therapy. Their advantage lies in the combination of their mass (they are heavy by subatomic standards) and high...
...criticize regular examinations for certain types of illnesses; some tests, in fact, do make economic and medical sense. For example, Vickery and Fries recommend routine blood-pressure tests for hypertension, inexpensive skin tests to spot tuberculosis, Pap smears for women over 25 to detect cancer of the uterus and cervix, and glaucoma examinations for people over the age of 40 if their families have had a history of the eye disease...
Most people have seen babies being born on TV specials, but few have ever seen a cervix or watched a suction abortion being performed. Taking Our Bodies Back, produced by Cambridge Documentary Films, demystifies such gynocologia as it raises issues in women's health care which have largely gone unnoticed by women themselves. The discussion ranges from home birth and midwifery to cancer, birth and midwifery to cancer, birth control, hormone drugs, and abortion; even women who thought they knew all about this will be surprised at what they don't know...
...policy of inserting IUDs only when women are menstruating makes it even more difficult to procure IUDs. It hurts too much to put them in when the cervix isn't dilated, Winig says. Because women can schedule appointments only one time during four-week periods, and because the gynecologists must frequently cancel appointments to deliver babies--about 30 per month--women can wait for months before they finally see a gynecologist. Winig, however, says he was unaware that many women have had difficulty procuring IUDs until interviewed, and says he may bring the problem up at a UHS board meeting...
...conducted between 1967 and 1973. The study, signed jointly by Sabin and Tarro, found antibodies produced in the body in reaction to the presence of the herpes simplex Type I and Type II viruses in patients with cancers of the lip, mouth, nose and throat, kidney, bladder, prostate, cervix and vulva. It turned up no trace of the viruses in patients with 28 other malignancies, or in patients without cancer...