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...buffer solution. Both tubes will remain in place for several days until he resumes normal bowel movements, after which he can begin eating solid food again. The President is also receiving antibiotics to guard against the possibility of infection, which occurs in 2% or 3% of those who undergo the operation. To relieve the President's postoperative pain, which is expected after such surgery, doctors used a special technique called intrathecal injection of morphine. They delivered the opiate through a needle inserted in the sheath of Reagan's spinal cord, where it blocks nerve pathways through which pain signals...
When told he would have to undergo surgery for a cancer of the mouth, Cleveland, the 24th President of the U.S., insisted on secrecy. It was he who thought up the idea of the sailing hospital, but rumors of the President's operation eventually leaked out. Said one attending physician: "I did more lying during this period than in all the rest of my life put together." Still, it was 20 years before the full story of the procedure emerged, although surgeons had discovered a malignant cancer and removed much of Cleveland's gums, inner cheek and upper...
This means that all the President's doctors can do is watch their patient carefully and hope to catch any recurrence in its earliest stages. Doctors have recommended that six months after the President's discharge from the hospital he should undergo another colonoscopy, a visual examination of the colon (see diagram). They will check his blood regularly for carcinoembryonic antigen, a chemical marker that may indicate the presence of cancer cells, and examine his lungs, liver and other organs by means of X rays and CAT scans...
...cancer should show up and you had to undergo treatments, is there the possibility that you would resign, turn the job over to Vice President Bush? A. I can't foresee anything of that kind. And that is not just me talking now. That's on the basis of all that I've been told by the doctors. But, as I said once when they were talking about my age before I was elected the first time, if I found myself ever physically incapacitated where I, in my own mind, knew I could not fulfill the requirements...
Physicians welcome the sudden willingness of patients to undergo tests for cancer. Colorectal cancer, which affects primarily men and women over 50, strikes some 138,000 Americans every year and kills 60,000. But regular examinations and early detection could save up to 40,000 more lives annually, according to the American Cancer Society. As a result of the attention the President's illness has attracted, the Massachusetts branch of the society has scrapped a 1981 poster that asked, "What is the cancer no one talks about?" The new one reads, "What is the cancer everyone talks about?" JUSTICE...