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Doctors removed the first lady's left breast and several lymph nodes from under her arm on Saturday in a 50-minute operation following a needle biopsy that revealed a quarter-inch malignant tumor. The first indication of the lesion came Oct. 5 during Mrs. Reagan's annual mammography...
...sort of confusion that attended the Administration's handling of the President's previous nose operation last July. Then it was six days before Reagan took questions on the subject. The diagnosis, now as then: basal-cell carcinoma, the most common and least dangerous form of cancer. The second lesion on the President's nose was removed by a Washington dermatologist, whom the Administration refuses to identify, in a short operation performed in the White House doctor's office under local anesthetic. Reagan explained that his doctors had been "keeping track" of his skin since his last operation. The latest...
...becomes suspect: a toilet seat, a child's cut, an act of love. Life slips into science fiction. People begin acting like characters in the first reel of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They peer intently at one another as if to detect the telltale change, the secret lesion, the sign that someone has crossed over, is not himself anymore, but one of them, alien and lethal. In the plague mentality, one belongs either to the kingdom of life or to the kingdom of death. So the state of mind glints with a certain fanaticism. It is said that...
...Centers for Disease Control, there may actually be an advantage in childhood exposure to herpes. Says he: "Having herpes for the first time as an adult is more serious than having it as a child." Cates points out that herpes almost always spreads through direct contact with a lesion or saliva or other body fluids. Says he: "The risk of transmission in a school setting is negligible...
...Stephens' blighted barn, eclipsed the slightly damaged wonder horse Devil's Bag, who was treated to early retirement to protect a $36 million breeding future. Extraordinarily, but without showing extraordinary exertion, Swale won both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. Eight days later, probably owing to a heart lesion, he died...