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Even in our own day, medical ideas change as often as skirt lengths. Until recently, U.S. doctors almost always insisted on re moving the breast when cancer occurred there. Now, under pres sure from women horrified by the prospect of such mutilation, they are finally beginning to restrain their scalpels and try al ternatives, notably radiation therapy, that have long been fa vored by European doctors. Similarly, many doctors are now having second thoughts about the value of hysterectomies, which are about as common as tonsillectomies...
...understand that you cooked my breast with microwaves?" the woman angrily asked Dr. Norman Sadowsky, chief radiologist at Boston's Faulkner Hospital. Sadowsky reassured her that he had not. Yet her concern is typical of the initial response to the hospital's breast-cancer detection program. To help in the all-important early discovery of a disease that has reached epidemic levels in the U.S. (90,000 cases a year), Faulkner radiologists are using microwaves to spot breast cancers...
...sending telephone messages to cooking steaks, would seem to be a highly unlikely medical tool. Like other electromagnetic radiation-notably X rays-they damage tissue at high enough energies. But the Faulkner microwaves are perfectly safe. Reason: the radiation involved is emitted not by the detector, as in conventional breast X rays (mammography), but by the body itself...
...example, in the past "the public has been encouraged to believe that much more is known about the effectiveness of therapy" for diseases such as cancer of the breast, for which the eventual recovery rate is "not high," he said...
...supposed to be her first routine medical checkup as First Lady, but Rosalynn Carter learned some unpleasant news at Bethesda Naval Hospital: she had a suspicious lump in her breast. With characteristic directness, Rosalynn, 49, wanted an immediate answer as to how serious it was. Captain William Fouty, the surgeon who directed the removal of Betty Ford's cancerous right breast, ordered the lump removed, under a local anesthetic. The laboratory report showed the growth to be benign, and Rosalynn headed happily home. The next morning, word came that the First Lady was "in great spirits." She even took...