"'Do you see the puckering around this white mass?' The radiologist pointed to a white blur on the monochrome scan. To my untrained eye, it resembled a comet throwing out plumes of dust in the blackness of space. 'That’s a tell-tale sign.'

I had just turned 40, and until this point I had never even had a mammogram. Now I was being told I had breast cancer."

My article in the @wsj about historical treatments of #breastcancer, and my own experience with the disease.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-medical-historian-confronts-breast-cancer-11669917623?st=47w2guxbp6b1rtf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&ns=prod/accounts-wsj