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second lump, a malignant tumor, and Ellen was operated on the next day at Winchester hospital.
She was assured that the cancer hadn’t spread. “1 really trusted my doctor. I've heard about people who haven’t believed it when they’ve been told that it hasn’t spread. My advice is to believe it and put it out of your mind as much as you can."
Ellen regularly practiced self-examination for breast cancer but never felt anything unusual herself. Even after two lumps were discovered by the doctors, she couldn’t feel either one. “I didn’t find them at all.” she remembered.
Despite her experience she stressed the importance of self-examination, a simple technique that can be mastered in just a few minutes. “And have a doctor check you frequently," she added.
"1 turned over in bed and felt a knot about the size of a hickory nut,” said Alice. Another winner in the cancer war. she too had a radical mastectomy, hers 24 years ago. Doctors removed gjands, muscles and nerves in her right arm as well as the affected breast.
Alice reported that the knot in her breast had caused pain, unusual in a malignant tumor. She went to two doctors before a surgeon finally diagnosed the knot as cancer. “It moved around too,” Alice added, noting that malignant tumors are usually stationary.
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