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...about the state of Reagan's health. But once again the media told me more than I wanted to know. Any day I fully expected the CBS Evening News to sign off as follows: "Thanks for being with us. This is Dan Rather reporting from inside the President's colon. Good night." George Zinnemann Upper Marlboro, Md. The Whiz Kid's Exit...
This means that all the President's doctors can do is watch their patient carefully and hope to catch any recurrence in its earliest stages. Doctors have recommended that six months after the President's discharge from the hospital he should undergo another colonoscopy, a visual examination of the colon (see diagram). They will check his blood regularly for carcinoembryonic antigen, a chemical marker that may indicate the presence of cancer cells, and examine his lungs, liver and other organs by means of X rays and CAT scans...
...bowel in 1984. They feel certain that the cancerous polyp, then at a less advanced stage, would have been detected at that time. "I don't understand why they didn't do a colonoscopy right then and there," says Dr. Donald Ritt, the San Diego gastro-enterologist who performed colon surgery on the President's brother Neil...
...complained of abdominal pain, Ritt performed another colonoscopy; this time tissue taken from the same spot contained malignant cells. On July 3, only ten days before the President's operation, Neil had major surgery to remove the growth. Ritt reports that it was in the same area of the colon as the President's, that it was classified as Dukes B, and that a 2-ft. section of Neil's colon had been removed. Even though some doctors believe that a tendency to develop intestinal polyps may run in a family, Ritt is incredulous. Says he: "I've never seen...
...East Wing of the White House. All told, he spent nine hours in meetings and ceremonies before leaving for Camp David at week's end. Nancy Reagan carefully monitored her husband's convalescence, as she has since the July 13 operation that removed a portion of his colon containing a cancerous polyp...