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...George Crile of the Cleveland Clinic considers the radical mastectomy a holdover from the 19th century. For many cases he advocates an operation called partial mastectomy, which, while more serious than a lumpectomy, still spares most of the breast. Crile's wife Helga, daughter of Poet Carl Sandburg, had the operation eight months ago, and Crile feels that its widespread use could make women more willing to face a diagnosis of breast cancer...
Married. Helga Sandburg, 45, novelist and children's author (Joel and the Wild Geese), youngest daughter of the famed poet; and Dr. George Crile Jr., 56, Cleveland surgeon and cancer specialist; she for the third, he for the second time; in a highly informal ceremony conducted by her 85-year-old father over the dining room table at his Flat Rock, N.C., home, followed by a civil marriage in Washington. Carl's wedding presents: one donkey, named Picco, three goats, named Rama, Rowan, and Fleur...
Three members of the Association Council were also elected: Dr. John P. Bowler, Dr. George Crile, Jr. and Dr. Arthur T. Hertig. Each member serves a three year term...
Since 1945, Page has been research chief of the Cleveland Clinic (a private medical center founded by the late Surgeon George Crile). In seven floors of laboratories, Dr. Page and his staff (eight physicians, four other research scientists, 26 technicians) are attacking all phases of hypertension from as many angles as possible, and in 20 research beds in the clinic's adjoining hospital the medical staff cares for patients who agree to cooperate in the study and treatment of their disease. Some of the scientific attacks are so basic that they seem remote from bedside medicine...
...Cancer Specialist Dr. George Crile Jr. of Cleveland charged that some doctors are more concerned with fighting cancer than with helping cancer victims, warned that "radical" surgery may be killing more patients than it saves. He advocated a "little philosophy of fatalism" in cancer treatment...