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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    the operation itself, and because of the universal lack of confidence in ultimate results as regards re- currence. Could we offer these women an operation that is thoroughly scientific, without the use of general anesthesia, practically painless, safe, and that con- sistently holds out reasonable prospects of freedom from recurrence, would they not come earlier? AXILLARY GLANDS SUBSIDE. I have noticed a remarkable fact in the progress Fig. 1. (Eisen). Amoeba proteus X 330. From Gruber. 1. Nucleus. 2. Contractile vacuole. 3. Pseudopodia, the dotted line points to the clear ectoplasm. 4. Food vacuoles. 5. Grains of sand. of this work, namely, that in all the seven cases herewith reported, with a single exception, the en- larged axillary lymph glands have subsided and be- come impalpable upon removal of the affected breast. This could not well have been the case had these glands also contained active cancerous de- posits, unless upon the theory of their destruction and elimination by the formation and action of an autogenous vaccine. I have therefrom inferred