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THREE YEARS AFTER HIS TRIUMPH IN THE GULF WAR, GENERAL H. Norman Schwarzkopf was feeling invincible. But in March 1994, uncomfortable with nagging tendinitis in one knee, he stopped by the MacDill Air Force Base Hospital in Tampa, Florida. While there, he decided to visit the base urologist for an exam. "I feel something not quite right," the doctor said, after making a routine rectal exam. "But if it's cancer, I can tell 90% of the time, and I don't think...
Schwarzkopf, then 59, had reason to feel confident. He had recently undergone a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test and registered a count of only 1.8, well below the level considered indicative of cancer. But to play it safe, the urologist performed an ultrasound exam ("It looks like a stone," he reassured the general), took a biopsy of the prostate gland and sent it off to a pathologist. Schwarzkopf left the hospital relaxed and optimistic. But a week later, the doctor called, paused and then said, "I don't know how to tell you this, but you have prostate cancer...
...saying something's not going on in, say, Denmark," observes Dr. Larry Lipshultz, a urologist with the Baylor College of Medicine. "But to deduce worldwide implications from a localized prob-lem is something you just...
Whether the new federal law will put an end to the traffic in human organs is uncertain. Bombay urologist Berjor Colobawalla, who has campaigned against the practice, notes that ``the federal government has reacted to public pressure, but unless local authorities are serious about enforcing this law, the trade will go on clandestinely.'' Bangalore police say two investigators will go to Saudi Arabia to gather evidence, specifically by interviewing organ recipients. By Jefferson Penberthy/New Delhi. Reported by Anita Pratap/Bangalore
...causes of prostate cancer are unknown, but doctors have suspected for years that the disease is linked to nutrition. "There are some studies implicating diet, and there are good studies implicating fat in the diet," said urologist Dr. Kenneth I. Wishnow, associate professor of surgery at the Medical School...