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Good Humor. Bolstering Ford throughout his busy week was his wife Betty's encouraging recovery. Because cancer cells were found in two of the 30 lymph nodes removed in the operation, she will have to undergo further treatment to prevent the spread of the disease. But she appeared to be in good humor. She was surrounded with cards, letters and bouquets from well-wishers...
...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...
...Angeles has found signs of viral activity in human sarcomas, or cancers of connective tissue. Drs. Werner and Gertrude Henle of the University of Pennsylvania have studied an intruder known as the Epstein-Barr virus in cells from victims of Burkitt's lymphoma, a tumor of the lymph glands. They have also studied the virus in cells of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat. Joseph Melnick of Baylor College of Medicine has determined that antibodies formed by the body to combat the herpes Type 2 virus* which often causes sores in the genital area...
...Martin S. Hirsch, a specialist in infectious diseases, said that lymphomas--tumors of the lymph glands--occur "several thousand times" more often among transplant patients than among healthy people of the same age groups. The studies revealing this fact were conducted at the University of Colorado Medical School and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Denver, he said...
WHEN Mrs. Mary Brown, a plump, cheerful housewife from Dallas, had her first bout with breast cancer seven years ago, her doctors knew exactly what to do. Following the accepted procedure, they performed a radical mastectomy, removing the affected breast, the underlying muscle tissue and the nearby lymph nodes. Then they subjected her to intensive radiotherapy, hoping that the X-ray bombardment would kill any residual cancer cells. But when cancer recurred at the operation site two years ago, and raised reddish, golf-ball-sized lumps on the flat area where her left breast had been, the doctors were stymied...