European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine the president has associated press landholder to the Steven Rosenberg broke the news of president Rea Gans cancer to millions of then confidently he bucked them up with reasons to have Faith things could turn out All facing a Battery of television cameras Rosenberg blinked once or twice behind his wire rimmed glasses and stepped to the the president has Rosenberg his direct words cutting through the medical jargon that had pre ceded then he spent half an hour explaining Why the four word verdict hed announced might not be so probably want so and in Many Many  turn out to be so there was every expectation that the local problem has been there was no evidence in the presi dents Case that this cancer has there was a need for regular exams from now but they would be aimed merely at making sure the presi dents internal organs Are in the same healthy state that there in All in he these findings Are optimistic find Ings in respect to the future course of this the presidents recovery is proceeding in a flawless although he didst Lead the surgical team that operated on who will be 45 in two had been brought in As an expert to his position As chief of surgery for More than a decade at the National cancer Institute qualified him for the Post taking reporters and the nations television viewers through the subject As he had helped take the president and Reagan through it earlier he did not say the cancer  come he said there was a better than 50 percent Chance it he was if this were another 74yearold would you advise after this to if he were someone other than the president his answer this is not an unusual info Stu in men who arc 74 years and this question comes up All the time with individuals in addition to the my advice to them is always to resume their full and Complete and that will be my advice to the How serious was it by Henry Gottlieb associated press the dramatic announcement from Bethesda naval Hospital that doctors had removed a cancerous tumor from president reagans raised a multitude of questions about the medical the prognosis for the presi dents recovery and what it Means for the running of the Here Are the some of those questions and the answers provided monday by the the White House staff and outside what kind of cancer did Reagan have cancer of the a 2inch cancerous tumor confined to the muscle of the Bowel Wall and found in a Twofoot Section of Colon that was removed in an operation on in scientific As Given by the head of the surgical Navy Dale the specimen removed from Reagan contained Adena confined within the muscle of the Bowel How serious was it referring to a cancer classification team member Steven Rosenberg identified the tumor by its scientific classification a Dukes b lesion that had invaded the Muscles of the Bowel a Dukes a lesion would be less serious and a Dukes c lesion would be an aggressive tumor that had spread into the Lymph nodes around the is there any cancer left in the presidents body not according to the Best Rosenberg it had not spread to the Lymph nodes or the local area outside the Colon nor was any found in blood vessels or so there is no evidence in the presidents Case that this cancer has Rosenberg Nev there is a less than 50 percent Chance that the tumor May recur at some time in the cancer specialists dont regard cancer patients As cured until they have survived five years without a recur How will the doctors prevent a recurrence they but they can take Quick action by diag no Reagan will have to have periodic blood tests to Check the status of his internal Rosenberg recommended regular lung and liver rays and a colonoscopy examination of the entire Colon within six treatments sometimes associated with can such As radiation therapy or wont be used because they Haven been proven effective in fight ing Colon Rosenberg what Are the chances of Complete recovery for the president i think Rosenberg predicting a 50 Chance that Reagan would live out his Normal noted cancer specialist David Korn of Stanford University school of Medicine went even fur envisioning an 80 percent to 90 percent Chance for survival of five years or according to the american association of retired the average Man who has reached age 74 can expect to live about eight More will he have to change his diet Rosenberg i would say that the presidents diet has served him in the sense that Hes a remark ably vigorous 74yearold but can the president even if there is no recurrence Bounce Back from cancer like this and resume what has often been billed As the toughest Job in the world in the Short Reagan will be in the Hospital for up to 10 Days and then will be on Light duty for six to eight weeks when he gets Back to the White in the who will run the executive Branch Reagan will still be under the constr but in the role of White House chief of staff Donald Regan will be Regan is already planning to spare the president As much As possible of the Rigours of running the said a senior administration Regan and the cab inet will try to make As Many decisions As we can without involving him the president where we can get new Public awareness by Malcolm bitter associated press what Betty Fords breast cancer did for that disease about 10 years presi Dent reagans polyp May do for col rec Tal cancer boost Public awareness and help doctors find the disease in trying to diagnose Colon and rectal cancer Early enough to improve chances for survival doctors want to examine patients before they see red blood in the said Sidney chief of gastroenterology at memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center in new visible blood in the bleeding from the rectum and sudden change in Bowel habits May indicate col rec Tal cancer and deserve an but examinations of people without symptoms can catch the disease and an american cancer society official said he believes the publicity surrounding reagans polyp will help that cancer society Joann Schellen Bach we used to Call col rectal cancer the cancer nobody talked i would say this week its the cancer everybody talking Garfinkel said diagnoses of breast cancer surged about 10 years ago after former first lady Betty Ford and Happy the wife of former vice presi Dent Nelson went Public with their the cancer society estimates about cases of Colon cancer will be found this plus cases of rectal among Only those of the lung and skin Are found More frequently than col rectal about americans Are expected to die from col rectal cancer this second Only to lung Colon cancer is expected to account for of the to catch col rectal cancer Early in people who Haven shown the cancer society recommends three kinds of tests starting at age people should have their doctors do an annual digital examination of the the doctor feels for lumps with a Finger in the first few inches of the starting at age people should get from their Doc tors a kit for an annual Stool blood at Home they put bits of fees from three consecutive Bowel move ments on a special and return it to the the goal is to find hidden also at age the society recommends starting examinations of the rectum and part of the Colon by a physician who uses a hollow tube to look for if two annual exams fail to find anything the society suggests another exam every three to five years the importance of Early detection shows in the percentage of patients surviving five years after diagnosis 87 percent for Colon cancer and 78 percent for rectal cancer that is found and removed in an Early but Only 47 percent and 38 percent respectively if the can cer has spread elsewhere in the july the stars and stripes Page 13