Word: rectal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some argue that receiving free medical care makes it awkward to be critical about the treatment if it is unsatisfactory. Others feel that friends may be unwilling to perform embarrassing but vital procedures. For example, in giving a doctor friend a general checkup, one physician failed to perform a rectal examination. The patient was later found to have inoperable cancer of the prostate...
Earlier diagnosis, which enables prompt surgical treatment, is credited with reducing fatalities in cases of breast, cervical, prostatic and rectal cancers. The chemotherapeutic approach, in which drugs are administered in series or in combination, is being used with encouraging results against Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system, and other systemic cancers...
...major problem facing the new populists is the same as that of their predecessors 80 years ago; race hatred. Populism in the early 1890's was free of rectal overtones, but by 1897 much of its platform was based on provincialism, nativism and racism...