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...colonoscopic inspection or a barium enema. Said Dr. Stephen Hanauer, a gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago: "The bottom line was, if he had either blood in his stool or a polyp last year, then our way of dealing with that is to recommend examination of the entire colon for polyps." The 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...
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...
Surgery to slice out two feet of his colon had apparently removed the malignancy from Reagan's bowel, and Dr. Rosenberg quickly explained that the President had a better-than-50% chance to live out his normal life. But the medical experts could not rule out the possibility that cancerous cells had escaped into the bloodstream and, like a microscopic time bomb, seeded themselves in another organ. If cancer should recur, the President could face a long and debilitating course of therapy that would make the heavy burden of the presidency more onerous...
Ever since they learned that the polyp removed from President Reagan's colon during a 3-hr, operation was a startling 2 in. across, most doctors following his case had been predicting the outcome of the pathologists' tests. So they were prepared last week for Dr. Steven Rosenberg's dramatic announcement that "the President has cancer." But ordinary citizens may have been confused when, with the dread words still hanging in the air, Rosenberg went on to say that the malignancy had been removed and that no further treatment seemed necessary. Indeed, under the circumstances, it might have been more...
Pathologists examining the polyp had discovered that it was cancerous and that the malignancy had grown through the connective tissue under the colon's inner lining into the layer of muscle that helps the colon contract. Yet their tests suggested that none of the malignant cells had spread beyond the intestine. Thus it was likely, though not certain, that in removing the 2-ft. section of Reagan's colon that contained the polyp, the surgical team had freed the President of cancer...