RT Journal
T1 REport on the late results of operation for cancer of the breast. being an analysis of 2,006 cases occurring in the practice of the general hospitals of eight county boroughs of england and wales during the period 1910-1921.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD January 12
VO 92
IS 2
SP 172
OP 172
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700280076039
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700280076039
AB This pamphlet is a public health report containing a complete statistical and analytic survey of cases of breast cancer that came to operation in the general hospitals of Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham, Leicester, Cardiff, Newcastle and Nottingham. The material represents the work of 113 surgeons and the case records extend from five to fifteen years. There were 1,642 cases of carcinoma verified pathologically and 364 cases believed to be carcinoma but not verified pathologically. Probably the most striking observation in this survey is a net survival rate in early cases of 73.3 per cent at ten years, as contrasted with 13 per cent in which the disease had spread beyond the breast. The pamphlet is unusual in the scope of its information and the amount of material studied and is well worth careful perusal.