Word: rectum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Cancer Institute announced results of a 20-year study of cancer incidence and survival in Connecticut. In twelve years, the overall survival rate of males with cancer increased from 12% to 20%, and of females from 19% to 32%. Chief reason: better treatment of cancer of the rectum, colon and cervix. However, the survival rate in the test period for ovary, brain, esophagus, lung and stomach cancer did not improve...
...over New Orleans thousands prayed for the little girls and waited anxiously for hospital bulletins. Colostomy operations (to give each child an artificial rectum) had already been performed so as to lower the danger of infection during the main operation. Then, one morning last week, they were wheeled into the operating room. A team of 15 doctors worked for 2¼ hours to complete the delicate job. Near by, the parents waited. Everything went according to plan. More spinal bone was joined than the surgeons had anticipated, but there were no unexpected difficulties...
...monsters like to lie on the pavement, enjoying its lingering warmth. Woodin steps up to the beaded, venomous patient, pins its neck down with a forked stick, and, with practiced skill, slips a specially made, quick-registering clinical thermometer into the beast's rectum...
...Society estimated. If every case had been detected early and treated by the best known methods, 140,000 might have been saved. Launching it's 1953 drive for $18 million, the society said that with present knowledge, cancer-cure rates can be increased thus: lung, 5% to 50%; rectum, 15% to 75%; mouth, 40% to 65%; skin, 85% to 95%; female reproductive system, from 30% to 80%; breast...
...Begum's orders, the senior maid inserted half an ounce of red pepper into Bano's rectum. The little girl swelled up and soon became unconscious. "Let that daughter of a bitch die," said the Begum. Three days later, Bano died. Her body was buried clandestinely...