Word: armpits
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...will hopefully be a three-day buzz. The Game will last only three hours, at most, and that's if Ron Cuccia takes his time in the Harvard huddles You ask yourself and your friends: What are we going to do in New Haven, which even Yalies call the armpit of New England...
...almost a century, the cornerstone of treatment for breast cancer was the Halsted radical mastectomy. In this physically and often emotionally scarring operation, the breast, underlying chest muscles and lymph nodes in the armpit are removed. In the past decade, however, most doctors have recommended less drastic surgery, particularly for women whose cancer is detected early. Now a major study confirms that women with very small tumors are just as well off with limited operations that spare most of the breast tissue...
...Umberto Veronesi and colleagues at Italy's National Cancer Institute, involved 701 women with tumors less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter. About half underwent radical mastectomies; the rest had "quadrantectomies," losing only the quarter of the breast with the tumor, plus lymph nodes in the armpit. The partial mastectomy patients received radiation therapy following the operation; since 1976 drug therapy has been given to women in both groups whose cancer had spread to the lymph nodes. The results, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed no difference between the two groups in either recurrence...
...intravenously to raise his blood pressure. A reading indicated that the systolic pressure (when the heart contracts) had dropped below 100, alarmingly low. Simultaneously, his clothing was cut away; as soon as the jacket and shirt were off, an oozing, slitlike bullet hole was discovered just under the left armpit...
...garb of a plumber but which closer examination revealed to be a fashionable variation of such workman's clothing: his dungarees were of fawn corduroy, his shirt of red and blue lumberjack checks. He wore boots that were unusual, being silver-coloured; and beneath each armpit, in a shade of fawn that matched his dungarees, were sewn-on patches, appearing to symbolise a labourer's excretion of sweat...