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...happenstance, the leading U.S. authorities on breast-cancer detection and treatment are meeting at the National Cancer Institute, just across Rockville Pike from Betty Ford's suite at the Naval Medical Center. They are deep in debate over what operation should be performed in cases like Betty Ford's. One conservative school argues that only the lump need be removed (lumpectomy), or at most, the breast tissue surrounding it (simple mastectomy). Surgeon Fouty chose the course now approved by the great majority of U.S. breast surgeons: a radical mastectomy...
...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...
...patients admitted to 24 hospitals in 1972. The surprise finding, reported in the British medical journal the Lancet, is that women aged 50 or over who take certain types of medication to relieve mild cases of high blood pressure run a threefold increased risk of developing breast cancer...
Cautious Checks. The investigators found that eleven, or 7.3%, of 150 women with newly diagnosed breast cancer had been taking reserpine medicines, whereas only 2.2% of 1,200 patients without breast cancer (but otherwise similar to the cancer-stricken women in age and other characteristics) had taken them. They reanalyzed their data to rule out hypertension itself as a cause or accelerator of breast cancer and also found no association with the alternative hypertension drugs. Cautious to a degree and determined not to be alarmist, the Boston group invited eminent epidemiologists in England and Finland to run a similar check...
Theories as to how reserpine-type alkaloids might influence breast cancer are inconclusive. A leading U.S. cancer epidemiologist, Manhattan's Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, believes that the action is not to cause the cancer-that usually takes many years-but to stimulate or accelerate its development. A somber Lancet editorial suggests that doctors will now have to weigh the apparently greater risk of breast cancer against the advantages of lowering blood pressure for mature women...