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...young Jewish male, my lifelong dream was to date a tall blond. But my other dream was to join the Friars Club. I pictured Shecky insulting Slappy, Slappy mocking Nipsey, Nipsey taunting Soupy, and Soupy choking on his own phlegm. There would be a whoopee cushion on every bar stool, pie fights over stolen punch lines and a lot of catcalling at the mere mention...
...case, it makes sense to concentrate on what doctors know for sure about colon cancer, which is that early detection saves lives. So get screened, starting at least by age 50 (earlier if you have a family history of the cancer). The simplest tests look for blood in the stool. The more involved tests examine the entire length of the colon for suspect lesions...
DIED. ALICE SHEETS MARRIOTT, 92, co-founder of the Marriott Corp.; in Washington. Marriott and her husband transformed a nine-stool root beer stand into an international hotel empire...
...often camouflaged by normal ones. Last month Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Md., reported in the journal Nature that they have figured out how to unmask the defective genes. Meanwhile, researchers at Exact Laboratories in Maynard, Mass., have developed a simple stool test that will alert your doctor to any dangerous genetic changes in your colon. The test costs $250 and may become more widely available by the end of the year...
...least expensive method--because it's the one most often covered by insurance--make sure you get both parts: a stool test, which looks for the presence of hidden blood, and a flexible sigmoidoscopy, in which a lighted tube is inserted into the lower third of the colon. The stool test should be repeated annually, since only 1 out of 3 tumors bleeds enough to be picked up by the test and then usually only after it's grown in size. The "flex sig" should be performed every five years, provided there's no change in symptoms or family history...