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...Angeles physician--the first openly gay person to head such a group--recommended eight urgent proposals, including a White House conference, all of which Clinton quickly adopted. The outspoken Hitt, who once criticized his boss's "hypocrisy" for not supporting needle-exchange programs, had metastatic colon cancer...
...film (Pauly Shore Is Dead) but mostly liked to discomfit her male-dominated industry in gigs with all-Latina troupes such as the Hot and Spicy Mamitas and the Latin Divas of Comedy, with whom she anchored a cable special this year. She was 52 and had colon cancer...
DEFINITION vur-choo-uhl koh-luh-nos-kuh-pee n. A minimally invasive procedure that uses X-rays and computer graphics to make 2-D and 3-D images of the inside of a patient's colon...
USAGE With surveys indicating that only half of Americans 50 and older get colonoscopies as often as they should, doctors hope the less daunting--not to mention lower-priced--test will attract more adherents. But some unpleasantries remain: the exam, which uses a tiny tube to inflate the colon, still entails drinking oodles of laxatives...
...also noted the possibility of using the mutant mice to study colon cancer, which long-term colitis patients have a heightened risk of developing...