Top Research Papers on Breast Cancer

The outlook on this age-old problem was dominated by considerations formulated more than half a century ago, but ROW the outlook has become more critical and hormonal treatment is only justified in cases which are demonstrably unsuitable for surgery or radiotherapy.

The presence of so many laymen to-night would seem to make it necessary to emphasize the need to attack all lesions that are potentially malignant and remove them at a time when their hosts can safely, certainly, and quickly be cured.

Bellevue, the largest municipal general hospital in the country, offers an opportunity for intensive investigation and study of all types of cancer in all stages and in sufficient number to permit one becoming conversant with all phases of the disease.

Dr. Todd at Hampstead, again, has shown that the interactions of the blood between fowl and fowl can be so used as to enable the biologist to identify any given hen and its family from any other hen in the world.

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.

Recurrence after radium alone is often an early local recurrence, obvious to the patient herself, and a cause of pain and disability, recurrence after the radical operation 'plus radium is rarely local.

The memorandum describes the niatural course of mammary canicer and calls attention to the facts that the onset cannot be fixed witli aniy degree of accuracy; that eveen in women of the sanme age aiild the same lhabit of body some cases run an acute an1 id otlhers a chlrlonlic course.

An unsigned review of the monograph entitled "Cancer of the Breast" is completely lacking in objectivity and its sarcastic tone seems uncalled for in view of the fact that the contributors are surgeons of distinction and doctors of distinction.

The nine years since the second edition of Cancer of the Breast have produced a significant body of literature on the relationship between diet and breast disease and the surgical management of primary breast cancer has been significantly altered by the popularization of breast conservation.

About 15,000 deaths due to this disease could be prevented in the U.S. each year by self-examination, early diagnosis, and immediate treatment.

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It seems to us that contact x-ray therapy, even with the increased kilovoltage which Dr. Griffiths suggests, must have a very limited scope in the treatment of breast cancer.

In the third edition of Cancer of the Breast, editors William Donegan and John Spratt have assembled 29 other authors, half of them from Louisville, who write of relevant, timely changes in the approach to breast cancer.

I intend to consider very briefly some salient facts in regard to the final outcome of thirty-nine cases of cancer of the breast, the histories of which I know from the time of the operation to the present day.

The article " Youth Looks at General Practice," by Dr. P. D. Grant (Journal, April 30, p. 1049), should be read by every medical practitioner and senior medical student, for it expresses the views of the majority of young general practitioners.

The next great social reform will be a national food policy to make a diet adequate for health available to every family, and increased production in this country of foodstuffs needed to bring diets up to the required standard would bring prosperity to agriculture and the retail food trade.

It is submitted that the word " primary " in connexion with pain is inapplicable; and an experienced rhinologist might be allowed to examine pre-operatively the next case which Mr. Rowbotham has marked down for a procedure which makes an interesting neuroanatomical experiment.

Although dimpling of the skin is present in the vast majority of patients with cancer of the breast, it must be appreciated that there are a number of other conditions, such as fat necrosis, healed acute inflammation, cysts, sclerosing adenosis, occasionally a healed incision, etc., that may pro duce dimpling.

After the institution of streptomycin therapy the baby's condition remained the same, with one thing in her favour- that her feedings were taken more freely with very little vomiting, and after the fifth day she appeared to be brighter, taking feedings from the bottle and generally looking better, though considerable head retrac· tion and spinal rigidity were present.

I think the action of the doctor in South London in charging the fees quoted by Dr. Todd-White is to be commended, and it is better that the fees should go into the pocket of a doctor rather than swell the receipts of one of his competing charities.