Word: glanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young Alex was an only child and is still waspishly glad about it: "What would my brother be doing? He'd be a horrible ass of some sort-a terrible gland case." Alex was "rocked" by the urge to paint when he first saw the works of Brueghel, but he modeled himself on George Grosz with a dash of Salvador Dali. The walls of his Park Avenue apartment are lined with pictures that look like bad dreams. King switched to illustrating books for bread-and-butter money, then bolted to journalism, and after his LIFE stint became managing editor...
...enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious. Every man is born with a prostate gland -it is one of the clear, anatomical distinctions between the sexes. In childhood it serves no known purpose. In life's prime its role is obscure and minor: it secretes a fluid which mixes with the output of the testicles, apparently helps to increase the mobility of spermatozoa. In old age, when again it appears to be useless, the prostate is the site of ailments ranging from the trivial to cancer which...
...before they reach MacArthur's age (80), the prostate has undergone some enlargement. Why this is, medical science has no clear idea. Researchers are not even agreed as to the nature of the enlargement. They used to call it hypertrophy, meaning that they thought the cells within the gland were enlarged. Now they usually call it hyperplasia, meaning an increase in the number of normal-size cells...
Less Pressure. Operations are of several types and designed to remove varying amounts of prostate tissue. Invariably their purpose is to relieve the pressure of the swollen gland on the urethra, which passes through it, to permit easy urination. In cancerous cases the entire gland is sometimes removed. The gland's response to the sex-hormone balance is shown by the fact that many prostate cancer patients apparently live longer if they are castrated. And female sex hormones are sometimes used instead of surgical castration. But this still does not prove that the hormone changes of advancing years cause...
This week General MacArthur's surgeons had to wait for an infection to clear before they could operate. There was no immediate indication of cancer. But cancer of this ambiguous gland strikes 24,000 U.S. men each year, kills about 16,000, thus ranks second only to lung cancer (30,000 deaths) as the most commonly fatal cancer in males...