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...cancer deaths is increasing slightly: 285,000 last year, 290,000 estimated in 1964, and 295,000 expected in 1965. Different kinds of cancer are increasing at different rates; lung cancer, once relatively rare, is rising fastest, and now for the first time displaces tumors of the colon and rectum as the most frequent cause of cancer death...
...well enough to make a transcontinental tour eight years after exenteration for cancer of his rectum and bladder. A woman of 35, whose operation spared the lower part of her pelvis, was having a normal sex life and went swimming seven years after surgery. Dr. Brunschwig's most extreme case was a woman who lost many internal organs, including the left kidney, plus all related lymph nodes, along with her left leg and hind quarter. Eight years later she is living happily and doing all her own housework...
...gave the press a sample of his famous earthiness. When a questioner sought to bring out discord between Russia and Yugoslavia by asking him to compare living standards in the two countries (higher in Yugoslavia), Khrushchev got angry. "Why are you trying to sniff a smell from the rectum?" he said. "This is not the most beautiful part of the body." Anyway, Khrushchev added blissfully, Soviet relations with Yugoslavia are "eternal...
...cases of rectal cancer are detected early enough to be treated as Powell's was. If the disease is widespread, the only hope is removal of the rectum. Says Powell simply: "I was one of the lucky ones...
...began bleeding from the rectum in March of 1938," he said. "The doctor found a cancer, smaller than the nail of your little finger, between three and four inches up inside my rectum. They recommended removal of the rectum. Then I'd have had to have a colostomy and evacuate into a pouch, through an artificial opening, for the rest of my life. I didn't feel I could go for this. But the doctors said that for my particular case they could offer an alternative-a temporary colostomy and radiation treatment. I took...