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Nurse: Self-examination gives
early warning of breast cancer
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By Jill Kami
Reporter
Because of self-examination, Cindy White dis
covered two lumps in her left breast two years
ago and a doctor had her get a mammogram.
Ine lumps were removed through surgery and
tests showed they were cancerous.
White, a registered nurse at Texas A&M’s A.P.
Beutel Health Center, then underwent two mas
tectomies and six months of chemotherapy treat
ments, but she attests that she could have faced
far worse consequences if she didn’t know what
to look for.
“I really encourage women to do monthly self-
jexaminations and have mammograms once a
lyear,” White said. “The earlier you find breast
cancer, the less severe the treatment is and the
[easier it is to get rid of.”
And more women are willing to get mammo
grams today than when White got hers. Accord-
| ing to a random survey taken by political scien-
! lists at A&M for the Texas division of the
American Cancer Society, eleven percent more
women say they hear more about breast cancer
today than they did a year ago.
A major purpose of this survey was to deter
mine to what extent cancer society programs in
creased awareness of breast cancer and to en
courage the use of mammograms.
It was revealed in the random survey, con
ducted last April, that the number of women who
think there is a risk asssociated with mammo
grams has decreased by 10 percent compared to
last year. Also, there has been a shift in the rea
sons women give for not having mammograms.
One of these reasons is that women now real
ize they can’t just rely on regular doctor visits.
They also are more aware that they can have
mammograms without a doctor’s recommenda
tion and that mammograms are necessary even
when a problem doesn’t exist.
I he poll also showed 20 percent fewer people
believe they are afraid of hearing bad news, that
mammograms cause radiation damage or that
self-examination is sufficient.
It is important for a woman to have a mammo
gram once a year and to do a self-examination of
her breasts once a month. White said.
White found the lumps in her breast during
self-examination, waited four weeks and checked
for them again, she said. When she found the
lumps to still be tender, she went to a doctor, who
in turn sent her to a surgeon who had her get a
mammogram that afternoon, she said.
The lumps were removed four days later and
tests showed they were malignant.
“When I found the lumps I really didn’t think
they were going to be cancerous,” White said. “I
just didn’t expect it. I was really surprised to find
out the lumps were malignant when I woke up
after my surgery.
“Some women find lumps and then, not know
ing what may happen, they put it off and the re
sults worsen.”
White was taken into surgery the next day for
a modified radical mastectomy on her left breast.
In a modified radical mastectomy, lymph nodes
in the surrounding area along with the breast tis
sue are removed.
Two weeks later, she had a simple mastectomy
done on her right breast. Only the breast tissue is
removed in a simple mastectomy.
a Students may enhance writing skills
in career choice with A&M program
By Jeannette Nicholson
Reporter
A Texas A&M student interested
! in writing may be able to make a ca
reer of it without having to work in
a newsroom or publishing house.
In fact, the skill could be custom-fit
to the profession of the student’s
choice.
Two A&M English professors,
Craig Cowen and David Stewart,
developed the Writing Specializa
tion program in 1977 to give stu
dents with a flare for writing a
chance to enhance and improve
| their abilities.
Cowen and Stewart recognized
i the growing demand for highly
skilled and competent writers in
business, industry and government.
and said they felt a student trained
in communication skills would have
a vastly better chance at job oppor-
A student can . . . create a
specific-interest curric
ulum.
— Sam Dragga, program
coordinator
tunities than someone without such
skills.
Currently, about 100 students
are enrolled in the program each
semester, says Sam Dragga, assis
tant professor of English and pro
gram coordinator. The program
has met with general success, he
says.
Students in the program must
take at least 18 hours of coursework
that should provide intensive train
ing in communication skills. A
grade of a “B” must be achieved in
all such coursework before the stu
dent can receive a certificate signi
fying successful completion.
The program’s four mandatory
core classes are English 210, En
glish 301, English 320 and Speech
and Communication 404. These
courses provide a broad range of
training in communication skills
ranging from argumentation to
technical writing.
The remaining six hours are cho
sen from supporting courses,
usually in the student’s major.
Dragga says 25 percent of the
classes in any major are usually
made up of some kind of training
classes in any major are usually
made up of some kind of training
in communication skills. Thus, a
student can choose from about 50
different courses and is therefore
able to create a specific-interest cur
riculum.
No special funds were needed to
develop and promote the Writing
Specialization, Dragga says, since all
coursework has been provided
through the existing curriculum.
Dragga says students generally
are first exposed to the program
through their English 104 instruc
tors, which serves as an effective
way to “snatch” the better writers
early on.
English professors
offer mini-courses
to enhance writing
By Pam Tragesser
Reporter
Beginning the second week in
September, students, faculty and
community members can again
participate in a program de
signed to improve their writing
abilities.
Writing Outreach is a series of
mini-courses designed to develop
or enhance writing skills, says
Cindy Stevenson, English lec-
:urer and assistant to the director
of freshman English.
The sessions will be taught by
about 20 instructors and profes
sors in the English department,
Stevenson says.
The instructors and professors
will choose the discussion topic
and at what point in the semester
they want to teach the topic, she
says. The sessions will begin at
6:30 p.m. in 120 Blocker. Three
or four topics will be discussed
each week.
The sessions will be two-hour
workshops, Stevenson says.
These sessions will cover express
ive essays, resumes and letters of
application and rules of editing.
The workshops will give students
hands-on experience, Stevenson
says, since an hour of practice will
accompany an hour-long lecture.
Toward the middle of the se
mester, the classes will be one-
hour sessions focusing on nar
rower topics such as eliminating
wordiness in writing, she says.
Although Writing Outreach
has been offered for several
years, low attendance is one of its
biggest problems because people
don’t know it’s offered, Stevenson
says. To change this, handouts
will be distributed throughout the
community.
Stevenson says she is trying to
put a Writing Outreach handout
in the packets distributed at Fish
Camp.
“'There’s no reason for stu
dents to feel like they can’t get
help,” she says.
At the end of each course, stu
dents will be asked to evaluate the
class and what they’ve learned
from it, she says.
“Usually, though, we have an
excellent evaluation at the end,”
she says.
No credit is given for the
classes, and the students pay no
fees to attend, she says.
“The people who come want to
come,” she says. “They’re not
. forced to come.”
Some classes will require partic
ipants to bring work to class, such
as the course in writing a resume
and a letter of application. This
allows the teacher to help the stu
dent on an individual basis, Ste
venson says.
Other classes are directed to
freshman English students, such
as the class in expressive and per
suasive essays, she says. These
mini-courses will help students
learn the concepts involved in
writing, she says.
“This is not a tutoring service,”
Stevenson says. “They can’t bring
their papers and expect the in
structor to help them with their
(English) 103 paper.”
And the programs aren’t just
for freshmen or students in En
glish classes, she says.
“Writing Outreach should be
for anyone who needs help in
writing,” Stevenson says.
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