Word: rectum
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First the facts: This year, 130,000 Americans will learn that they have developed a tumor somewhere in the inner lining of their colon or rectum. For those whose cancer is discovered at the earliest stages, the odds of living at least five more years are greater than 90%. Unfortunately, fewer than 40% of colorectal cancers are discovered that soon. In the same period, about 56,000 people in the U.S. will die of the disease, making it the second greatest cancer killer, after lung cancer...
...operate only to find a perfectly healthy appendix. Now a study shows that examining the abdomen with ultrasound or a CAT scan is 94% accurate in diagnosing whether a sick child does or does not require surgery. One drawback: a nonradioactive dye must be administered through the child's rectum before a CAT scan can be performed...
Suppose that on one fateful night in August 1997, New York City cop Justin Volpe had contented himself with pummeling Abner Louima with his nightstick instead of ramming a broom handle into Louima's rectum and then waving it in front of his face. Suppose that after that vicious assault, Volpe had not pranced around the precinct house with the blood-and-feces-stained stick, inviting other cops to examine it. And suppose the victim had not made the headline-grabbing (though phony) allegation that his tormentors had exulted, "This is Giuliani time!"--a reference to the city's tough...
...other tests received qualified endorsements. The CEA test, which detects as many as 80% of colon-cancer recurrences, measures the amount of carcinoembryonic antigen, a protein found in the blood that is often produced by tumor cells. Regular proctosigmoidoscopy, which looks directly at the rectum, is recommended for patients with rectal cancer who have not undergone standard treatment with radiation...
...Lung & bronchus 90,900 2 Prostate 37,000 3 Colon & rectum 27,800 4 Pancreas 13,900 5 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...