Word: colonics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regular, moderate exercise, no one is sure of the physiological mechanisms involved. It may be that exercise increases coronary blood flow, decreases clotting or both, which would limit the blood-vessel blockages that cause cardiovascular problems. And some scientists speculate that exercise increases bowel motility, a factor in avoiding colon cancer. Those questions may be answered in part by the next phase of the investigation, which is expected to include more than 40,000 people. Such speculations are literally academic, though. For the average man or woman, the message is clear: get moving...
...decades the only true weapon against colon cancer has been surgery. If the scalpel could take out the entire tumor, the patient was cured; if not, the cancer recurred. But now, for the first time, researchers have developed a drug therapy that may reduce the high death rate from this form of cancer, which kills 53,500 Americans each year and is the third most common type of malignancy...
...researchers tested a combination of two drugs: 5- fluorouracil, a proven anticancer agent, and levamisole, a medication commonly used by veterinarians to clear worms from the intestines of animals. Included in the studies were some 1,700 cancer patients, most of whom had been operated on for Dukes' C colon cancer. In this stage of the cancer, the tumor has penetrated the bowel wall but has not spread to the rest of the body. The results of the first study, which appeared in this month's Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that 49% of patients receiving the treatment were still...
...researchers caution, however, that the drugs are not effective for patients with more severe colon cancer, in which the malignancy has already spread throughout the body. Nor have studies shown a benefit for those patients whose cancers were detected at an early stage. Still, Dr. Michael Friedman of the National Cancer Institute called this first success for drug therapy against colon cancer a "terrific intellectual breakthrough." The institute has alerted 35,000 cancer doctors across the country. And some experts are hopeful that the findings will lead to similar therapies for other cancers...
...Rose Tattoo" is one cut that effectively showcases this combination. Co-written by Byrne and W. Colon, "The Rose Tatto" is set to a Bomba/Mozambique beat with somewhat depressing Spanish/English lyrics that reflect on the impossibility of dreams and humanity: "And they were imagining Roses/As if life itself were a dream/Is a gift not a reason for living?/Not enough, not enough, so it seems." The chorus then switches to Spanish with the refrain: "Brinde a la Rosa/Y al hombre que no vive/Perdido en un sueno/en un atmosfera imposible," reflecting again the hopelessness of illusion...