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When doctors discovered last March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...
Instead of a mastectomy, Blaschko opted for interstitial radiation therapy -the temporary implanting of tiny bits of radioactive isotopes in and around the malignant tissue. She has had no reason to regret her decision; the lump in her breast has receded, the cancer in her lymph nodes has apparently been eradicated, and she feels so well that she has taken up cycling along with her daily swimming...
Back to the Curies. Primitive variations of the treatment chosen by Blaschko date back to the turn of the century, when the Curies' discovery of radium made possible a radiation source compact enough to be placed within a tumor. Since then, the technique has been considerably refined and has long been used to treat certain cancers of the neck, head, vagina and other parts of the body difficult to cope with surgically. Now, U.S. doctors, confronted by 90,000 new cases of the disease a year, are showing an increased interest in the use of interstitial implants against breast...
Several of the glass models which arrived in the last invoice from Mr. Blaschko's studio, are now in place in cases on the main exhibition floor. Two of the models represent with great fidelity the galls and gall-insects of the willow...
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