Word: lymph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's decision to have a modified radical mastectomy -- the removal of the entire breast and underarm lymph nodes -- struck some doctors as extreme. The reason: her tumor was just a quarter-inch in diameter -- small enough to have been safely excised by a less disfiguring operation called a lumpectomy, in which the tumor is removed along with a minimum of surrounding tissue. The First Lady also chose to have the surgery immediately after her breast was biopsied. According to prevailing medical wisdom, it is better to wait a few days so that the biopsied tissue can be thoroughly examined...
Hutton's statement said, "Final laboratory analysis of tissue and lymph nodes removed during Saterday's surgery confirm there is no further malignancy or evidence of other disease...
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...
Hutton's statement said that while preliminary laboratory tests showed the cancer had not spread to the lymph nodes or surrounding tissue, final laboratory analysis would be completed on Sunday...
Such tests on frozen sections of the lymph nodes are crucial, because the lymph nodes act as the body's filters for foreign matter such as cancer cells, and physicians look to them to determine whether the cancer has spread to other parts of the body...