Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good reason to be grateful. Two weeks earlier, after reading about First Lady Betty Ford's well-publicized operation for breast cancer, Happy decided to do what doctors urge all women to do regularly: examine her breasts for suspicious growths. To her dismay, she found a small lump in her left breast. Happy wasted no time asking for an appointment with her gynecologist, who found several more lumps. Then she checked into the hospital for a biopsy to determine if the growths were in fact cancerous. When the tests proved positive, doctors immediately performed a mastectomy. They amputated...
...When a lump is found, some women try to ignore it, hoping that it will go away. Jean Tyler, 44, a former showgirl and fashion model who now works as a fashion consultant in Hollywood, discovered one in her breast a year ago. "I put it out of my mind then," she recalls. "I knew there was something there, but I didn't want to touch it." Her doctor dissuaded her from further delay. In the past, frightened women often waited as long as a year before reporting a suspicious lump to their doctors; if the tumor was malignant...
...most cases, the discovery of a lump is not a prelude to disaster. The female breast, which changes daily throughout the menstrual cycle, is particularly susceptible to abnormal but harmless growths. Many younger women develop cysts, or small packets of fluid. Fatty growths are not uncommon. In fact, reports the American Cancer Society, 65% to 80% of all breast lumps are not cancerous...
...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...
...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...