Word: breast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During all the current interest in breast cancer, why haven't the possibilities of catching the cancer but also reforming the breast through plastic surgery been more thoroughly explored? The physical-health-first attitude of "I'm just happy that they caught the cancer and saved my life" is exactly what women should not be saying now in an age when face-lifts and padding of the fanny are routine operations. Instead they should be asking for an operation in which the breast can be reformed...
Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller and his wife Happy waved at reporters in the lobby of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, where only eight days before, Happy had undergone surgery for breast cancer. "We're very grateful to Betty Ford for her example to all of us," said Rockefeller. "I would like to say that self-examination and courage on the part of women throughout the world can do for them-in case they need it -what it did for Happy...
...Rockefellers had good reason to be grateful. Two weeks earlier, after reading about First Lady Betty Ford's well-publicized operation for breast cancer, Happy decided to do what doctors urge all women to do regularly: examine her breasts for suspicious growths. To her dismay, she found a small lump in her left breast. Happy wasted no time asking for an appointment with her gynecologist, who found several more lumps. Then she checked into the hospital for a biopsy to determine if the growths were in fact cancerous. When the tests proved positive, doctors immediately performed a mastectomy. They...
Waiting List. With their admirable courage and frankness, Happy Rockefeller and Betty Ford have effected a profound change in the general attitude toward a dread disease. Women are showing a new willingness to discuss breast cancer openly, to face it directly. Across the nation they are besieging hospitals and doctors' offices, seeking examinations and information. Manhattan's Guttman Clinic, which screens women for breast cancer, until recently received 30 to 40 telephone calls a day. It is now receiving as many as 400 calls, and has placed women seeking examinations on a waiting list that extends to January...
...Breast cancer is not a new disease. The papyrus records of ancient Egyptian medicine contain references to breast lumps and swellings. But this ailment has drawn increased attention in recent years. It is the leading killer of women in the 40-to-44 age group and the primary cause of cancer deaths among women of all ages, striking one out of every 15. Before 1974 has ended, some 90,000 American women will learn that they have cancer of the breast; another 33,000 will die from...