Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Regan in King Lear but is simply hateful in Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Graham Greene once wrote that when trying to refine the pangs and foibles of men and women into fiction, a novelist must have a sliver of ice in his heart. A sliver of ice, yes. A lump of black bile, no. > Timothy Foote
Revenue Sharing. Yet Alan Fechter, an economist with the Washington-based Urban Institute, concludes that a lump-sum $1 billion outlay would not create the 200,000 new jobs that Labor Secretary Brennan foresees, but only about 50,000. Local officials, he argues, tend merely to substitute the federal funds for state and local money that would have been spent anyway...