Traitement du cancer du sein / par A. Depage.

  • Depage, A.
Date:
[1905?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Traitement du cancer du sein / par A. Depage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L 22 A. DEPAGE. — TRAITEMENT DU CANCER DU SEIN. In ail the cases, it is necessary to dissect carefully the axilla and to remove completely its fat and glands up to the clavicular région, in one continuons piece with the breast. No determined incision is practised by the autbor, in large ablations he uses Handley’s incision. The statistics show a marked improvement in results of the surgical treatment of breast cancer : durable healings, in 1875 = 9.4 °/0, in 1895 = 46.5 °lo. The same proportion in the diminution of the risk of récur¬ rence. Thanks to Handley, the surgery of the breast cancer will certainly greatly improve.