First, you cry
In “Mastectomy, Part 2,” a third-season “Dallas” episode, Jock (Jim Davis) enters his bedroom to find Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes) on the floor, crying.
JOCK: My God, Ellie. What’s wrong?
ELLIE: Go away, Jock.
JOCK: I wanna help. I can’t leave you like this.
ELLIE: Nothing, nothing fits.
JOCK: I’m telling you, it’ll be all right. It doesn’t matter.
ELLIE: Why doesn’t it matter? Because I’m not young anymore? Don’t you think I care the way I look? Don’t you care?
JOCK: I care for you, Ellie. You. I’m just so happy that you’re alive. Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.
ELLIE: Doesn’t it? Jock, I’m deformed. Doesn’t that matter?
JOCK: You are not deformed, Ellie. If you lost an arm or a leg, I’d suffer that loss with you, too. But it wouldn’t change anything between us.
ELLIE: I’m not talking about an arm or a leg. I’m talking about my breasts. What do you know about that?
Dallas Decoder 
[…] for the disease in real life. Davis is equally moving as Jock struggles to comfort his wife. In one scene, he tells her it “doesn’t matter” that she’s lost a breast. “Because I’m not young […]