Supplementary remarks upon the treatment of cutaneous malignant epithelioma (cancers) / by A.R. Robinson.

  • Robinson, Andrew Rose, 1845-1924.
Date:
[1893?]
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Credit: Supplementary remarks upon the treatment of cutaneous malignant epithelioma (cancers) / by A.R. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    get the best results the theory for their use must be well understood, and with a little experience the operator knows just what he should and can accom¬ plish. I will now leave this field, of the subject, a field which was fully discussed last year, and to which- I would not have returned had it not been that I wished to give rebuttal evidence against the statement of the above referred to surgeon. I am satisfied that the weighty evidence of Mr. Marsden, and the future evi¬ dence of the careful scientific surgeon treating his cases according to the theory and the rules stated in i my previous paper, will lead to the general conviction that in the majority of cases of cutaneous cancers the use of arsenious acid or chloride of zinc or caustic potash, in the manner already recommended, is the best method of treatment. I will go farther and state that for nearly all cases of cutaneous cancer seen at an early stage and before they have extended much into the surrounding tissue, no more successful method need be desired, for tne operator can almost always promise a prompt and permanent cure. One word as to the so-called recurrence of the dis¬ ease. The use of this term is improper in every case in which the disease reappears at the site of the primary tumor, for when such a condition occurs, it is because all of the pathological epithelium has not been removed. A recurrence can only mean a return of the disease after removal, and in this case there has not been any complete removal. The term recurrence should be restricted to those cases where a cancerous growth has formed independently of the first cancer;