RT Journal
A1 ROSSER C, KERR JG
T1 CAncer of the rectum in young persons
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD September 23
VO 113
IS 13
SP 1192
OP 1196
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800380010003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800380010003
AB Carcinoma has been regarded up to comparatively recent years as a disease limited entirely to middle and later age groups. Collected reports in medical literature before 1900 emphasized the extreme rarity of cancer occurring in the first three decades of life. For example, Gusserow1 in 1886 reviewed 3,385 cases of cancer including epithelioma and found only two that had originated before the patients were 20 years of age. De LaCamp2 was able to find only nineteen cases of carcinoma in persons under 20 years of age in a total group of 9,963 cases recorded previous to 1897. Williams3 reported in 1898 that in a study of 806 patients with carcinoma he found only one under 20 years of age. Later he collected 11,934 cases and reported that less than 1 per cent of the patients were under 30 years of age.Several reporters since 1910 have called