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Surgery's role in treating such cancer is to remove not only the breast containing the malignant tumor but also the lymph nodes that act as reservoirs for cancer cells traveling from the breast to the rest of the body. In most U.S. hospitals, surgeons perform a classical operation that is called a radical mastectomy. They make an elliptical incision, remove the breast and the outer mammary lymph nodes near the armpit and collarbone...
...years, was not enough to explain the peculiar Gaucher cells, sign of the disease. It is also necessary to analyse the deranged metabolism of cell proteins, believed to have an abormal affinity for kerasin. Kerasin is stored in the spleen and causes its enlargement, as well as enlargement of lymph nodes...
...capillaries -surprisingly as much as half of the blood's total stock. By a still-obscure method, the lymphatic system picks up this protein,, which then flows to lymphatic collection points. Biggest of these, in the abdomen, is the cisterna chyli. Others are in the chest. Through large lymph channels-notably the thoracic duct-the protein returns to the blood stream. Most surprising, Dr. Mayerson and fellow researchers found, is the sheer volume that the lymphatics handle. In the dog, and probably in man, the kidneys' lymphatics process a volume of fluid almost equal to the kidneys...
...sharp drop in the plasma's protein content (the result of drastic surgery, a burn or an accident) is one of the factors that make shock catastrophic and possibly fatal. So the long-mysterious lymph system is a means of combating shock...
Good Servant. There seems to be no end to the variety of vital biochemical substances that the lymphatic system carries. Dr. Mayerson believes that it conveys hormones into the bloodstream from the glands where they are produced. He is convinced that cholesterol gets into the blood through the lymph-system interchange. And circulating cholesterol is under indictment as a cause of atherosclerosis. In one of nature's delicate balance mechanisms, a rise in blood pressure may push more fats through artery walls. If the lymphatic system cannot drain away all this fat from the tissue spaces around the arteries...