Editing Eva Perón (section)

===Declining health===
On 9 January 1950, Perón fainted in public and underwent surgery three days later. Although it was reported that she had undergone an [[appendectomy]], she was actually found to have advanced [[cervical cancer]].<ref>[http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/445142 Famous Patients, Famous Operations, 2002 – Part 6: The Case of the Politician's Wife] Medscape Today, 5 December 2002. Retrieved 8 July 2010.</ref> Fainting episodes continued through 1951 (including the evening after the "''Cabildo abierto''"), with extreme weakness and severe vaginal bleeding. By 1951, it had become evident that her health was rapidly deteriorating. Although she withheld her diagnosis from Juan Perón,<ref name="Fraser 148">{{harvp|Fraser|Navarro|1996|p=148}}.</ref> he knew she was not well, and a bid for the vice-presidency was not practical. A few months after "the Renunciation", Perón secretly underwent a radical [[hysterectomy]], performed by the American surgeon [[George T. Pack]]<ref name=ajr>{{cite journal |first = Irving M. |last = Ariel |title = George T. Pack, M.D., 1898–1969, a tribute |journal = American Journal of Roentgenology, Radium Therapy, and Nuclear Medicine |date = October 1969 |volume = 107 |issue = 2 |pages = 443–446 |pmid = 4898694 |doi = 10.2214/ajr.107.2.443 }}</ref> 
at the [[Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]], in an attempt to remove the cervical tumor.<ref name="Lerner">{{harvp|Lerner|2000}}.</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2015}} In 2011, a [[Yale University|Yale]] neurosurgeon, Daniel E. Nijensohn, studied Evita's skull X-rays and photographic evidence and said that Perón may have been given a prefrontal [[lobotomy]] in the last months of her life "to relieve the pain, agitation and anxiety she suffered in the final months of her illness".<ref>{{Cite journal |last1 = Nijensohn |first1 = Daniel E. |last2 = Savastano |first2 = Luis E. |last3 = Kaplan |first3 = Alberto D. |last4 = Laws |first4 = Edward R. |date = 1 March 2012 |title = New Evidence of Prefrontal Lobotomy in the Last Months of the Illness of Eva Perón |journal = World Neurosurgery |language = en |volume = 77 |issue = 3 |pages = 583–590 |doi = 10.1016/j.wneu.2011.02.036 |issn = 1878-8750 |pmid = 22079825 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last = Nijensohn |first = Daniel E. |date = July 2015 |title = Prefrontal lobotomy on Evita was done for behavior/personality modification, not just for pain control |journal = Neurosurgical Focus |volume = 39 |issue = 1 |page = E12 |doi = 10.3171/2015.3.FOCUS14843 |issn = 1092-0684 |pmid = 26126398 |doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1 = Nijensohn |first1 = Daniel E. |last2 = Goodrich |first2 = Isaac |date = September 2014 |title = Psychosurgery: past, present, and future, including prefrontal lobotomy and Connecticut's contribution |journal = Connecticut Medicine |volume = 78 |issue = 8 |pages = 453–463 |issn = 0010-6178 |pmid = 25314884 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1 = Young |first1 = Grace J. |last2 = Bi |first2 = Wenya Linda |last3 = Smith |first3 = Timothy R. |last4 = Brewster |first4 = Ryan |last5 = Gormley |first5 = William B. |last6 = Dunn |first6 = Ian F. |last7 = Laws |first7 = Edward R. |last8 = Nijensohn |first8 = Daniel E. |date = December 2015 |title = Evita's lobotomy |journal = Journal of Clinical Neuroscience |volume = 22 |issue = 12 |pages = 1883–1888 |doi = 10.1016/j.jocn.2015.07.005 |issn = 1532-2653 |pmid = 26463273 |s2cid = 24600802 }}</ref>

Péron's cervical cancer had metastasized and returned rapidly, despite the hysterectomy.<ref name="Lerner"/>{{page needed|date=October 2015}} She was the first Argentine to undergo [[chemotherapy]]{{snd}}a novel treatment at that time. She became [[Emaciation|emaciated]], weighing only {{convert|36|kg|lb stlb|abbr=on}} by June 1952.<ref name=Robson20150710>{{cite news |last1 = Robson |first1 = David |title = The gruesome, untold story of Eva Peron's lobotomy |url = https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150710-the-gruesome-untold-story-of-eva-perons-lobotomy |work = BBC News |date = 10 July 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1 = Nijensohn |first1 = DE |title = Prefrontal lobotomy on Evita was done for behavior/personality modification, not just for pain control. |journal = Neurosurgical Focus |date = July 2015 |volume = 39 |issue = 1 |page = E12 |doi = 10.3171/2015.3.FOCUS14843 |pmid = 26126398 |doi-access = free }}</ref>