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When doctors discovered last March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...
Instead of a mastectomy, Blaschko opted for interstitial radiation therapy -the temporary implanting of tiny bits of radioactive isotopes in and around the malignant tissue. She has had no reason to regret her decision; the lump in her breast has receded, the cancer in her lymph nodes has apparently been eradicated, and she feels so well that she has taken up cycling along with her daily swimming...
...shortly be released from Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he underwent surgery for removal of a cancerous bladder and lymph nodes...
Known as a radical cystectomy, it involved removal not only of the bladder (the body's reservoir for urine) but of other parts associated with the urinary tract as well: the prostate gland, the lymph nodes-which are being further examined to see if the cancer has spread to them-and fatty tissue around the bladder, and part of the urethra (the tube leading from the bladder through the penis). Such extensive surgery, Whitmore later explained, is routine in radical cystectomies (which his team performs at a rate of 80 to 100 a year), and does not mean that...
...these is Surgeon-Immunologist Felix Rapaport of the New York University Medical Center, who became the Transplantation Society's new president-elect last week. Prior to implanting new kidneys in beagles, he has been removing some of their bone marrow-the site, along with the lymph nodes, of white-blood-cell production-and irradiating the dogs. The X rays destroy the ability of the remaining bone marrow and lymphoid tissue to produce white blood cells. Then he reinjects the marrow cells, thus restoring the animal's immune system, and quickly performs the transplant. Some of the beagles...