The campaign against cancer : educational, experimental and clinical / by William Seaman Bainbridge.

  • Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947.
Date:
1911
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Credit: The campaign against cancer : educational, experimental and clinical / by William Seaman Bainbridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cerous stage. This, burn was constantly subjected to irritation, so that healing was impossible, and had the patient not been stopped from smoking and the burn properly treated, this would very likely have event¬ uated in malignancy, with a history similar to some of those given below. Case XIII.—M. F. P., male, aged 50. Epithelioma of lower lip. This case is an interesting illustration of what thorough surgery will accomplish in a person evidently predisposed to the development of cancer. Twenty-seven years ago a small growth ap- Fig. 16. J. S. R. Advanced epithelioma of nose involving orbit and superior maxilla. peared on the lip, a little to one side of that which is shown in Fig. 18, taken from the wax cast of the case when we first saw him. This primary growth was thoroughly re¬ moved, together with the glands of the neck, by the late Dr. Andrew J. McCosh. For all these years the patient has remained perfect¬ ly free from cancer. The small growth shown in the picture cannot be called a re¬ currence. Reasoning from analogy, the pa¬ tient will be free from cancer, unless another new neoplasm makes its appearance. Case XIV.—T. W., male, aged 48. Epi¬ thelioma of the face and neck, recurrent from very small growth on the lower lip. The primary growth was removed by the surgeon who was consulted in the early stage, three years before admission to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, but the cervical glands were not removed. This case is the antithesis of Case XIII. In a very short time after the removal of the growth there was a tremendous involvement of the glands Fig. 17. A. M. Ulcer of the lip caused by burn from excessive cigarette smoking. Fig. 18. M. F. P. Early epithelioma of lower lip near scar of old epithelioma removed 27 years ago. (Cast.) of the neck, as shown in Fig. 19, with in¬ ternal metastasis. When admitted to the hospital the patient was in such an advanced stage of the disease that no operative inter¬ ference was warrantable. He died about a week after admission of metastasis, the original site of the growth being perfectly healthy.