... the issue of personal responsibility and to stressthe mechanistic and orderly vision of cancer that was the basis for the Do Not Delay: Breast Cancer and Time, 1900–1970ROBERT A. ARONOWITZUniversity ... waspessimistic about curing breast or other cancers. Surgeons in the earlierperiod believed that mastectomies did not cure breast cancer but rather Breast Cancer and Time, 1900–1970 365controlled ... budget, and priorities.See Patterson (1987), especially chapters 3 and 7. Breast Cancer and Time, 1900–1970 383ReferencesAdair, F.E. 1943. The Doctor Looks at Women and Their Problem ofCancer...