Word: polyps
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...President's Polyp...
Several gastroenterologists have publicly declared that Reagan should have undergone a complete colonoscopy when a polyp was discovered in his lower 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...
...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...
...suspect you might have cancer before they told you? A. No. And I went in with a little handbag, fully convinced that I would be on my way to Camp David the next morning. And they came back in after having taken out the polyp and told me that they had found this other type. And they said, about this other type, that we have no evidence whether there are cancer cells, but it is the kind that can be cancerous. And they said, now you're all prepped, you're here. That prepping took a lot of imbibing...
...deal with that these next 3½ years? A. I'm going to do exactly what they've told me to do. The doctor himself was a little concerned because he'd used the term that I "have cancer." He says the proper thing is I "had cancer." That particular polyp, called adenoma type, is one that, if it is left, begins to develop cancerous cells. Well, this one had. But it's gone, along with the surrounding tissue. It had not spread. So I am someone who does not have cancer. But, like everyone else, I'm apparently vulnerable...