Identifier: americanjournroen09ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he same arbitrary. Recurrences after operation do • Read at the Seventh Animal Meeting of The American Radium Society, St. Louis. Mo.. May 22-23. 1922. 765 766 Results of Treatment of Carcinoma of the Cervix take place in the sixth year and may occurat any time as long as the patient lives.I know personally of a thirteenth-yearrecurrence of a cervical cancer. We mustnot belittle the importance of four-year,three-year, or two-year cures. If, forexample, two methods give in a singleclass the same percentage of five-yearcures, and one a far greater percent-age of amelioration and shorter cures are very few; in fixed parametria! masses,in very extensive vaginal, bladder, rectalor in regional gland involvement there arepractically no cures. Radium by local treatment in the earlycases has no mortality or morbidity, buta very substantial percentage of permanentcures; in the extensive borderline operablecases the percentage of mortality is low, ifanything at all, the percentage of morbidity
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Fig. i. Group I. Disease limited to the cervix in the ultimate failures, it is clearly aiu( successful procedure. There is,unfortunately, set by nature a very shortlimit to human existence, and in the longestlife lour years is a very material portion.Our personal position is as follows:Surgical removal m verj earlj cases has alow mortality and morbidity and a verjsubstantial permanenl cure rate; in moder-ate involvement ol the parametrium andvaginal walls both the mortality andmorbidity are increased and the curerate decreased; in extensive para met rialinvolvement or vaginal wall involvementthe mortalitj is definitely increased, themorbiditj greatly increased, and the cures . 2. Group II. Disease spreading from the cervixand involving the vaginal wall. is low, that of short clinical cures is veryhigh, and that of long clinical cures muchless than in early cases, but much greaterthan by operation. In the extensiveparametria! fixations, in involvements ofcontiguous parts of the bladder

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