SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH

1921 The Lancet  
25 With regard to results, of 24 cases of uterine carcinoma treated by the X rays alone during the year 1918, 20 at the present moment are quite well and leading normal lives, being at least clinically cured and free from any sign of carcinoma, local or general. Approximately equal success has attended the treatment of mammary carcinoma. If there is a large mass of cancerous tissue it should be removed by operation first, but if small it may be attacked at once with very good prospects of
more » ... s. 75 per cent. of the cases of mammary carcinoma treated in the year 1917 by the X rays and without preliminary operation are now clinically cured. Dr. LOUISA MARTINDALE (Brighton) read a paper on the
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