[Reprinted papers on cancer] / by Herbert snow.

  • Snow, Herbert, 1847-1930.
Date:
1895
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    II THE TUMOURS OF THE BREAST WHICH ARE “ DISPERSIBLE ” WITHOUT OPERATION* A very common question by hospital patients who apply with a “lump in the bi*east” is “Whether this cannot be dispersed?” While it is needless to remark that such an aim is utterly impossible in the case of a cancerous growth, or that should we vainly essay for the latter merely tentative treatment, we shall only succeed in frittering away what may yet remain of the six to twelve weeks’ period,f within which alone modern surgery can reasonably guarantee a radical cure, yet I should like now to point out that a margin of instances numerically considerable yet exists, wherein recourse to the operator’s kuife is hardly ever necessary, and in which “dispersal” can be effected with no great difficulty. Foremost of the latter is the tumour described in * A paper read in the Section of Surgery at the Bristol meeting of the British Medical Association, 1894. t Vide ‘ Lancet,’ January 12th, 1895, “ The Conditions of Cure in Cancer.”