Word: gastrically
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...Soviet Russia, as in the U.S., cancer stands near the head of the list of killers.* Some 70,000 Soviet citizens die each year of gastric cancer alone (in the U.S.: 80,000). By Mayo Clinic standards, the Russians concede that Russian cancer treatment is backward: Russian doctors are less skillful in diagnosis, have three times as many deaths after operation (23%) and less than half as many five-year "cures" (no recurrence) of gastric cancer (12-14%). But the U.S.S.R. is pushing cancer research in twelve cancer institutes and in many hospitals, has made cancer-fighting...
...starting members of the Varsity basketball team suffered from stomach aches last night, but the Crimson five survived gastric troubles and a slight case of sloppiness to defeat an overrated Boston University team 55 to 45, at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Topic: gastric cancer, most hopeless of all cancers...
That was the grim problem that faced 125 of the nation's top gastric specialists last week at an extraordinary conference in Chicago. Their chairman, Dr. Andrew Conway Ivy of the University of Illinois Medical College, gravely suggested that the time had come for emergency action. Though gastric cancer is the deadliest, it is getting the least study. Some points: ¶ Gastric cancer gives no early warning, is usually unsuspected until too late. ¶By the time they get to a doctor, only 8% of stomach-cancer victims can be successfully treated, 25% are beyond all help...
...have long suspected that stomach ulcers, popularly considered an occupational disorder of business executives, doctors, taxi drivers, newsmen and others who work under stress, have their root in the nervous system. If so, Dr. Dragstedt reasoned, overstimulation of the nerves must somehow be responsible for the abnormal secretions of gastric acid. When he tested his theory, he discovered that the operation did indeed greatly reduce the amount of gastric juice in the digestive system. Cutting the vagus nerves just above the stomach slows digestion, but seems to have no serious effect on other organs...