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When the drugs were administered to 207 women who had undergone radical mastectomies and had cancerous cells in one or more lymph nodes, the results were, in the words of an editorial that accompanied the report in the New England Journal of Medicine, "nothing short of spectacular." Twenty-seven months later, only 5.3% of the women showed signs of cancer. By contrast, the recurrence rate in a control group of 179 women who did not receive the same treatment was 24%. The researchers concluded, on the basis of their findings, that the drugs had not merely suppressed the incipient cancers...
...Radical mastectomy is not as radical as it purports to be," Weber said. While radical surgery, removes the lymph nodes from the armpit, cancer also spreads to the neck and internal mammary lymph nodes under the breastbone, Weber said...
...Rosenthal, assistant professor of medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and a hematologist, says it is significant that three of Harvard's teaching hospitals--the Brigham, Beth-Israel, and the new Dana Center--have adopted the same protocol for treatment of Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph tissue. But this does not mean a definitive cure, Rosenthal says; only a high probability of cure at certain stages in the cancer...
...Sanders won the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, then turned pro after college and earned $22,665 during last year's tour, which included a victory in Florida's Amelia Island Open. He was competing in the Western Open in June when he learned he had lymph-gland cancer, which was thought to be unrelated to his death...
...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 many of the 89,000 women who will undergo breast surgery this year will be able to take advantage of reconstructive surgery...