RT Journal
T1 THe localization of carcinoma in early life
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD September 11
VO LIII
IS 11
SP 874
OP 874
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550110048007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550110048007
AB Carcinoma in persons under thirty is uncommon enough to cause comment, and under twenty it is a rare curiosity, but there is no absolute limit below which carcinoma may not appear, as it has been observed even in the first few months of life. There seems to be a striking difference between different tissues in regard to the early appearance of carcinoma, as is brought out by Lindemann1 in a compilation of the literature on this subject. Carcinoma of the skin seldom occurs in the young, scarcely 1 per cent, of some six hundred cases of cancer of the skin and lip being in individuals under thirty, and but about 2 per cent. of breast cancers under this age. In a large series of cases of carcinoma of the stomach, persons under thirty were the victims in from 2 to 3 per cent., and Riegel has recorded two cases