Word: polyps
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...interview, Tower read a portion of a letter from Lichliter that said tests that were conducted prior to his surgery to remove a colon polyp foundnormal liver functions, and that there was noevidence of alcohol withdrawal following theoperation...
Bodmer's team studied 13 families with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), a rare hereditary condition affecting adolescents in which the large intestine is carpeted with hundreds of small growths called polyps, which frequently become cancerous. After reading about a boy who suffered from several disorders, including FAP, that seemed linked to a missing portion of chromosome No. 5,* the researchers hypothesized that all FAP victims lack the same genetic material. They were right. Afflicted patients had the chromosome defects; healthy ones did not. The scientists further postulated that a person with FAP inherits from one parent a healthy gene that...
Bethesda Naval is the hospital of Presidents. Ronald Reagan went there last year to have a cancerous polyp removed from his colon. Richard Nixon was treated for viral pneumonia at the 500-bed facility in 1973. Lyndon Johnson had his gall bladder excised at the hospital in 1965 then proudly displayed his scar to anyone who cared to see it. Bethesda, in the northwest outskirts of Washington, D.C., is also a jewel in the crown of the U.S. military health care system, whose 688 facilities care for the nation's wounded in time of war. But presidential patronage notwithstanding...
...staff. The President stirred a storm of controversy in May by insisting on visiting a German military cemetery at Bitburg where SS officers were buried. He and his Administration were also diverted by situations beyond their control: the hostage crisis in Beirut, the operation to remove a cancerous polyp from his colon...
Reagan has been following a go-slow regimen so that his body's "cement" can harden properly after major surgery last July for a cancerous polyp in his bowel. The former lifeguard, once cheerily vain about his lifelong "coat of tan," has given up his morning sunbaths and wears a broad-brimmed straw hat to protect his face. These are also doctors' orders, aimed at preventing a recurrence of the skin cancer that was scraped from his nose last month...