Cancer of the Breast
It can be said that at the present time many types of case considered unsuitable for treatment in the past can be offered therapy with, to say the least, good hope of amelioration.
Abstract
During recent years important developments have taken place in the treatment of cancer of the breast. This fact is obvious if reference is made to treatises on the subject which were published several years ago, for example "Cancer of the Breast" by Charles Barrett Lockwood written in the year rgI3. He has set out in his own attractive way an experience of a series of operations and their results. The clinical section of the book portrays the clinical acumen of the astute observers of that generation. Lockwood also deals fully with the operative treatment of this disease but it is obvious that with the advances which have been made in methods of irradiation, the scope of therapeutic measures has considerably widened. Evolutionary changes have been taking place in treatment and correlation is being effected between certain clinical types of the disease and the particular form of treatment to be instituted in each group. It can be said that at the present time many types of case considered unsuitable for treatment in the past can be offered therapy with, to say the least, good hope of amelioration.