Word: pectorale
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After the hours of arguing in the Cabinet Room at the White House last week, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin slowly started massaging the pectoral muscles on the left side of his chest. It was a nervous habit that betrayed the anxiety of a former heart-attack victim enduring new stress...
For the cases in which the tissue proves to be cancerous, immediate surgery is the only prudent remedy. How drastic that surgery must be, however, is a matter of considerable debate. For some years now, the standard treatment for breast cancer has been the radical mastectomy, a traumatic and disfiguring...
Despite the widespread occurrence of breast cancer, however, its treatment remains in dispute. A study released last week by the National Cancer Institute has added to the longstanding debate over the best surgical technique to combat breast cancer. The common procedure, and the one performed on Mrs. Ford, is radical...
Her surgeon, Ohio-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...
Rumors that the Vatican had been burgled began to circulate last May, when one of the Holy See's security officers discovered by chance a one-of-a-kind gold religious medallion in the window of a Roman coin shop. It had been missing from the Pope's...