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Though such screening procedures as mammography and thermography can spot cancer in the breasts early, the American Cancer Society reports that 95% of all breast tumors are discovered by the women themselves. Of these, 60% have spread to the lymph nodes before detection...
...tumors-those that have spread to the lymph nodes-may be better controlled or prevented following surgery by treatment with a drug called L-phenylalanine mustard. Conducted at 37 hospitals, the study showed that L-PAM reduced the rate of recurrence among women who had already undergone surgery for breast cancer. Its effect on premenopausal women was particularly dramatic. Of 37 such women who received no drug treatment after surgery, eleven had recurrences of cancer; of 30 treated with oral doses of L-PAM, only one had a recurrence...
Once this gambit has broken the ice, the volunteers get down to business, telling patients about their own experience, assuring them that their femininity is undiminished, and offering practical advice on where to buy bras and breast prostheses. "I think that we help patients because we understand the feeling that something has been taken away -the sense of loss," explains Mrs. Renee Levine, 45, coordinator of the Reach to Recovery program in Brooklyn. "We can also help them to understand that breasts do not make a woman...
...sings in her church choir and works with the Girl Scouts in addition to serving as a Reach volunteer. Many patients, in fact, become so sold on Reach to Recovery's message that they end up carrying it to others. Their evangelical spirit is understandable. Losing a breast to cancer is tragic, but not nearly so tragic as trying to ignore the disease and thereby losing a life...
...Walters herself once again proved inimitable. One morning last week on the live Today show, which preceded Not for Women Only in Washington and New York, Barbara led a discussion on breast cancer. At the end, she allowed a surgeon to take her hands and show her on camera how to examine her breasts-fully clothed, of course. Barbara was giving Julie a tough act to follow...