Word: rectum
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...Great Ziegfeld and My Man Godfrey. Many of today's moviegoers scarcely know him. But less surprising than his fading reputation is the actor's actual survival. Last week in Palm Springs, Calif., Powell observed the 25th anniversary of his operation for cancer of the rectum. And with the same smooth ease that made him a hit on the screen, Powell spoke frankly of an illness and a treatment that most patients and their relatives find too embarrassing to discuss...
...supply, the body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches to several feet of small bowel, the colon, rectum, one lung, one kidney, one testicle, one ovary, one breast, the prostate gland...
...Change. The mortality rate of cancer of the colon and rectum could be much lower than it is, said Dr. Ravdin. Early detection and prompt treatment could save 30,000 of the 40,000 patients who die from it each year. But for breast cancer the formula of early detection and prompt treatment no longer seems to be the panacea it once was. "Despite all that has been done, the death rate from breast cancer has not changed...
...saved some 44,000 cancer patients who would have died had they developed the disease ten years ago. We have the means at hand to save virtually all of the women who develop uterine cancer, and given ideal conditions, salvage those who develop cancer of the colon and rectum...
...healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker cough up deep mucus to reveal lung cancer; swallowed balloons and brushes to catch cells from stomach cancer; special washings to reveal disease in the large bowel and rectum...