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After the removal of her left breast because of cancer in 1970, Mrs. Joan Dawson, 54, of New York City, spent the next three years battling depression and a sense of loss. Then she decided to do something about it. Most women in the same situation turn to a psychiatrist. Mrs. Dawson (not her real name) went to her doctor and asked him to rebuild her missing breast. "I didn't want to be made into a sensational beauty," she explained. "I just wanted to be restored." Her surgeon was able to do just that. In two separate operations...
Since 1969 several hundred American women have undergone plastic surgery similar to Mrs. Dawson's-with increasingly satisfactory results. At a recent meeting at Rutgers Medical School, plastic surgeons predicted that the number of breast reconstructions would continue to rise. Self-examination and mass screening programs are detecting an increasing number of early breast cancers* before they spread; that makes it possible to perform less disfiguring operations than the standard radical mastectomy, in which not only the breast but the lymph nodes under the armpit and the muscles of the chest are removed. As a result, doctors predict that...
...world of monthly, national circulation magazines--the ones that cost at least a dollar--there are two types; magazines for people, and magazines for women. Magazines for people have articles in them on the disbandment of HUAC, or the latest dealings of OPEC. Magazines for women have articles on breast cancer, child care, or "when to blow the whistle on the boss." In fact, one magazine this month has everyone of those articles. It even has the requisite beaming cherub on the cover, Yet there's a twist; this grinning infant is perched on an IBM Selectric typewriter. The magazine...
...final day competition on Saturday, Wolf and Fullerton each won their specialties, the 200 back and breast respectively, and the Harvard owners scored more points than any other team in the three-meter diving...
...Harvard to do well, the stars of the team would have to place first in their specialities--Wolf in the 100 and 200 back. Fullerton in the 100 and 200 breast. Brumwell in the IM, and Yntema in the fly and 200 free--while the relays finish at the top and the rest of the squad picks up important extra points...