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First Lady Scheduled For Biopsy of Lesion; Left Breast Will Be Removed If Cancerous

First Lady Nancy Reagan entered Bethesda Naval Hospital last night for a biopsy of a "suspicious lesion" in her left breast and the White House announced that doctors plan to remove the breast today if the lesion is found to be cancerous.

Informed sources close to the Reagans said the discovery of the lesion Oct. 5 has caused President Reagan deep concern and preoccupied him at a time of intensifying difficulties in his administration, including conflict in the Persian Gulf and the doomed campaign to put Judge Robert H. Bork on the Supreme Court.

Intimates of the president have said that even more than his own bouts with cancer and the 1981 assassination attempt, the one health problem ...

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