05-04 Breast, Arm & Uterus Cancer with radiation burns to Arm
Pacient: Margaret Mitchell
Diagnostic: Breast, Arm & Uterus Cancer with radiation burns to Arm
Case Summary
First Treated Dec, 1936
1932 First operations Breast off, later tumour on uterus and still later arm growth removed.
Radiation following surgeries and continued at intervals leaving massive holes so putrid the family could not be in the same house. Hole took 1.5 yards of bandage to fill the hole. The breast bone was badly noduled. More radiation suggested by the doctors as the only solution sent the patient to Nurse Caisse.
March 1938, sores almost completely recovered. gained weight back to normal. Able to do house work.