Steve Pope wrote:
> Michel Boucher > wrote:
>
>> In Québec, there was a turluteuse in the 1930's called La Bolduc, a self-
>> taught musician and composer. She went from housewife to being the most
>> popular singer alive in Québec, the first to be able to earn a living from
>> record sales alone, all in the space of two years and performed for the
>> following ten years even through chemotherapy for a malignant tumour (of
>> which she died).
>
> They had chemotherapy in the 1930's? I had no idea.
>
> Steve

Well, actually it sounds as if she had radiation therapy.
My mother had radiation therapy as a young child in the 30's.