Word: cervix
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...patients, now makes more money peddling the trinkets than he does as a radiologist. Some of his bestselling designs: a coiled white intestinal tract with a bright red, about-to-burst appendix; gastric resection with or without ulcer; a uterus and Fallopian tubes with cancer of the cervix (available, like the rest of the doodads, as earrings) ; a Daliesque assortment of unblinking, bloodshot eyes...
...voice of Dr. Dick Read explains as the record begins that Mrs. Usill is nearing the end of the first stage of labor; dilatation of the cervix, now almost complete, has been accomplished with little discomfort: "She is lying relaxed on her right side, as she has been taught." The sound of the patient's deep and rapid breathing signals the onset of each new contraction; they are now coming three minutes apart. In a quiet moment, a microphone attached to the doctor's stethoscope picks up the fetal heartbeat, amplified to thunderous volume. "That's fine...
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. chose cancer of the cervix to study, picked some odd particles called adenoviruses* to attack the tumors. Last week the N.I.H...
...data last week on the most promising scientific developments in the hunt for a cancer cure. So far, even supervoltage radiation has failed to eliminate more than a small percentage of serious internal cancers; surgery has proved successful only in localized, easily removable cancers, e.g., of the breast and cervix. Cameron's conclusion: "Drug treatment has to be the solution...
...Cancer of the cervix is now curable in 75% of cases (some say 100%) when treated promptly after the first symptoms appear, but the actual cure rate now is closer to 40% because too many women ignore the early danger signals...