RT Journal
A1 DENNIS FS
T1 CAncer of the breast
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD May 22
VO LII
IS 21
SP 1645
OP 1648
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420470011001c
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420470011001c
AB In the present contribution, I shall refer only incidentally to statistics. In several previously published papers1 I have given my statistics at length. I desire now to express some opinions that I have formed and facts that I have collected from a study of my own personal cases during the past twenty-five years, selecting a few cases of cancer of the breast, and analyzing them critically, because I believe it is a better way to arrive at the truth, than by a promiscuous study of a large number of cases with statistics only as a guide to determine certain important facts.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. These thirtynine cases have been selected from a large