Word: breast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four years with TIME'S Medicine section, Associate Editor Peter Stoler has written dozens of stories on cancer. This week, in a four-page special report, he surveys the tragically topical subject of breast cancer, a disease that until recently many people were almost afraid to mention. "Our purpose," Stoler explains, "is to try to dispel some of the fears and myths by answering the questions that women have about breast cancer." While much of the article comes from cold, dispassionate research data, Stoler's analysis of the emotional effects of mastectomy is based on intimate, some times...
Surviving Breast Cancer...
Your story "Coping with Cancer" [Oct. 14] is full of the kind of scare words that contribute to the widespread panic and misapprehension about breast surgery. That "all women feel mutilated by a mastectomy" is simply not true. I've had two such operations and feel no more "mutilated" than if I'd lost an abscessed front tooth...
...losing a breast to cancer any more "tragic" than losing a spleen. It is a lot less tragic than losing a limb or vital organ...
...midst of his political troubles, Rockefeller announced that his wife was undergoing surgery for removal of a cancerous breast. It was a startling and melancholy coincidence: Happy Rockefeller's modified radical mastectomy took place just 19 days after Betty Ford went through similar surgery. Mrs. Rockefeller had examined herself-just as countless other women did-after Mrs. Ford's illness received wide publicity. The suspicious lump that Mrs. Rockefeller discovered turned out to be malignant, but at week's end doctors at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan announced that she was in excellent condition...