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Diagnosis of a full-blown cancer is easy. Diagnosis of an early, curable one may be difficult. It depends upon study of a sample of tissue cut from a living tumor under suspicion. Said Pundit Ewing: "Accurate tumor diagnosis requires a life-long experience and a special training. Not every diagnostic laboratory is equipped to give this service. The State of New York requires a difficult practical examination of all pathologists who undertake to diagnose cancer and wish to be eligible for appointment in any of the many laboratories controlled by the State. It would be well if other states...
Treatment of cancer is positive and often curative in cases of cancers which can be reached without cutting the patient open. Thus the rate of cure is comparatively high for cancers of the skin, breast, uterus. From those sites the surgeon usually can excise the offensive tumor or the radiologist can shrivel it with x-ray or radium. The great difficulty with cancers of internal organs is that they seldom warn the victim of their presence until it is too late to get rid of them. Nonetheless, surgeons can save the lives of an appreciable number of victims. Radiologists, guided...
...With eyes closed she could not tell where her left hand was, or her left foot. On the left side she was insensitive to pain, heat, vibration. These left-hand symptoms indicated trouble on the right side of the brain, since the control lines are laterally crossed. Diagnosis: brain tumor. Dr. William James Gardner of Cleveland opened her skull, cut out the right cerebral hemisphere-i.e., half her brain...
Four years after the operation she tripped, fell 20 ft. down a stairway. Soon she grew apathetic, dullwitted, unable to feed herself. A sample of fluid from her spine showed traces of blood. Her doctors concluded that a blood-filled tumor had developed on the outer layer of the brain. The skull was trephined, clotted blood removed from the left side of the cranial cavity, bloody spinal fluid from the right. Later, the patient seemed like a person with no brain at all. Bedridden, apathetic, twitching spasmodically, she died...
...ordinary hemorrhage caused her death? Or had the fall stimulated a new growth of the old tumor? An autopsy would have settled the question. Despite the most fervent pleas, the woman's family refused to permit...