Word: rectal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Considered spending intersession being monitored with rectal temperature sensors, guaranteed not to cause "continuing discomfort"? Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital hope that this proposition will pique student interest--along with the $900 paycheck...
...there is no need to test in younger men, this attitude prevailed when my cancer was discovered. If I had not been an R.N. and a member of a hospital's administrative team, I might have gone untreated. It still took two years before an abnormal PSA and a rectal exam led to a correct diagnosis. I salute General Norman Schwarzkopf, Michael Milken and all the other high-profile men who have shared their stories with the world. I hope their efforts will lead to early detection and treatment for many men unaware they have prostate cancer. CLARK A. FENN...
...invincible. But in March 1994, uncomfortable with nagging tendinitis in one knee, he stopped by the MacDill Air Force Base Hospital in Tampa, Florida. While there, he decided to visit the base urologist for an exam. "I feel something not quite right," the doctor said, after making a routine rectal exam. "But if it's cancer, I can tell 90% of the time, and I don't think...
...health problems, most men shy away from exchanging information about any of their physical disorders, let alone problems involving a gland that produces seminal fluid and affects urinary flow. And they prefer not to undergo, or even think about, the traditional test for detecting prostate problems: the infamous digital rectal exam...
...first time, the government is urging everyone over age 50 to have regular screenings for colon and rectal tumors. Annual tests for blood in the stool and periodic exams, with a scope, of the rectum and colon are suggested...