A new method of treatment of breast cancer based on observations concerning the nature and causes of recurrence / by C.W. Strobell.

  • Strobell, Charles William.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: A new method of treatment of breast cancer based on observations concerning the nature and causes of recurrence / by C.W. Strobell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    haves like an infection, and that unchecked it kills the patient by gradual encroachment on the func- tions of vital organs. We also know that the eradication of the infectious material must be com- plete or our efforts will be in vain. Apropos of infection, Eisen’s “Cancriamoeba Ma- croglossa” so completely tallies with all the clinical phenomena attending the onset, spread and recur- rence of carcinoma that we have in it an ideal work- ing hypothesis in our warfare against this disease. For a masterly working exposition of this par- ticular subject the reader is referred to an article entitled “Is Cancer Contagious?” by J. Lapthorn Smith, M.D., M.R.C.S., Eng., published in the International Journal of Surgery, December, 1906, from which the five appended illustrations are reproduced. (See Eisen’s Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.) The great problem in the cancer question to-day as yesterday is recurrence. Something favors re- currence. What is this something? To know this is to know how to avoid it. Ii/ invite attention to some well-known facts re- garding cancer of the breast; also, to certain im- portant personal observations, upon which this method is founded. There are probably, roughly estimated, twenty-five thousand cases of cancer of the breast in the United States to-day. In round numbers sixty out of every one hun- dred selected cases operated upon by our best men will be dead or dying within three years after the excision operation, from recurrence of the disease. Moreover, it is generally conceded that an additional twenty of every such hundred will be dead or dying by the end of five years from the same cause. As