Word: lumping
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...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...
...this score, Betty Ford was a near-ideal patient. She was in otherwise good health and far from overweight. She had not taken any of the hypertension medications that have just been linked with increased risk of breast cancer (see MEDICINE). True, she had not detected the lump in her breast by self-examination, which might have prevented a delay of days or weeks. But when a lump was found in her routine checkup at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, she consented to immediate exploratory surgery, with the all-important proviso that if malignancy was detected, the doctors could remove...
...born Captain William J. Fouty, has specialized in female and pediatric surgery since he made Navy medicine his career. He has performed hundreds of mastectomies. After the anesthesiologist gave the go-ahead at 8:05 a.m., Fouty cut into the breast and within about ten minutes had removed the lump. It proved to be 2 cm. in circumference-no bigger than the tip of a man's little finger. A technician rushed the lump to the pathology department, where it was fast-frozen with liquid nitrogen. A thin slice was cut, which a pathologist examined under a microscope. Within...
...treatment are meeting at the National Cancer Institute, just across Rockville Pike from Betty Ford's suite at the Naval Medical Center. They are deep in debate over what operation should be performed in cases like Betty Ford's. One conservative school argues that only the lump need be removed (lumpectomy), or at most, the breast tissue surrounding it (simple mastectomy). Surgeon Fouty chose the course now approved by the great majority of U.S. breast surgeons: a radical mastectomy...
...stopped short of the supra-radical operation, in which lymph nodes under the breastbone are removed. These are less likely to be involved in situations similar to the First Lady's, in which the cancerous lump was on the outer, upper aspect of the breast, toward the arm. The argument over the best way to treat breast cancer cases like Betty Ford's is likely to continue long after she recuperates...