Word: cervixes
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...Institute announced results of a 20-year study of cancer incidence and survival in Connecticut. In twelve years, the overall survival rate of males with cancer increased from 12% to 20%, and of females from 19% to 32%. Chief reason: better treatment of cancer of the rectum, colon and cervix. However, the survival rate in the test period for ovary, brain, esophagus, lung and stomach cancer did not improve...
Another team, Drs. James H. Stephenson and William J. Grace of New York Hospital, compared 100 women with cancer of the cervix and 100 with cancer not involving the reproductive system. They found that sexual adjustment among the cervix cancer victims had been poor long before they developed the disease: they had had less intercourse than the others and rarely enjoyed orgasm. In many cases there was actual aversion for the sexual act, and their marriages had been troubled, as indicated by a much higher rate of divorce, desertion or separation. Their cancer, the doctors suggest, might have been caused...
...fact that 85% of the boy babies born in U.S. private hospitals nowadays are circumcised, regardless of the parents' religious beliefs, may be an important factor in reducing cancer of the uterine cervix (neck of the womb) in years to come. Dr. Ernest L. Wynder. of Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases,* has reached this comforting conclusion after studying the striking differences in the incidence of cervical cancer among women with different marital histories...
...elderly Negro woman who was referred to Houston's M.D. Anderson Hos pital for Cancer Research posed a tougher problem for the social workers than for the doctors. She had cancer of the cervix. She was hundreds of miles from home, and needed a place near by to live for three months while she took regular X-ray treatments as an outpatient. Mrs. Edna Wagner, tireless and efficient director of social service at Anderson Hospital, shook her head: there was no suitable housing for such a patient in segregated Houston. But the woman had a son living...
...that only one of the ten cancer victims had gone to see him because she was worried about cancer. The others had such unrelated complaints as fatigue, arthritis, hay fever and headaches. Dr. Fremont-Smith believes that physicians in general will find an early, curable cancer of the cervix in one out of every hundred new patients, if only they will give the test...