Nancy Reagan's cancerous left breast was removed today in a 50-minute operation without complications, the White House said.

Nancy Reagan will return to the White House on Thursday, five days after surgery for the removal of a cancerous left breast, President Reagan announced today.

With a mastectomy, in which a woman's entire cancerous breast is removed, once the surgery is completed the treatment is done.

And both of her daughters have had cancerous breasts removed.

Mrs. Adams offered thanks to Dr. Rush for advising her daughter, Abby, to proceed with an operation to remove a cancerous breast.

The doctor said that in the November surgery he had cut through scar tissue left by a 1974 operation to remove Mrs. Ford's cancerous right breast.

Astell died in 1731, a few months after a mastectomy to remove a cancerous right breast.

If cancer is present, treatment may consist of surgery to remove the cancerous breast, radiation, and/or chemotherapy to kill any remaining cancer cells.

Now in days before cell therapy, what woman hesitated to have a cancerous breast cut off?

The triple test score (TTS) is a diagnostic tool for examining potentially cancerous breasts.