The proclivity of women to cancerous diseases and to certain benign tumours : being the substance of a lecture delivered at the Cancer Hospital on February 6, 1891 with appendix on heredity as a cause of cancer / by Herbert Snow.

  • Snow, Herbert, 1847-1930.
Date:
1891
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Credit: The proclivity of women to cancerous diseases and to certain benign tumours : being the substance of a lecture delivered at the Cancer Hospital on February 6, 1891 with appendix on heredity as a cause of cancer / by Herbert Snow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    body, there appears, although the numbers here in- volved are too small for any very dogmatic asser- tion, to be almost an equality between males and females in respect of liability to cancerous develop- ments. Eleven women, 7 men, suffered from cylin- droma of the rectum; 10 women, 6 men from disease of the abdominal viscera; 5 women, 4 men from miscellaneous cancerous maladies of the extremities; and, as we have seen, the external generative organs in both sexes are pretty much on a par. In fact, making allowance for the slight preponderance of women in the population gene- rally ; we are justified in assuming an absolute equality between males and females, in respect of all the parts last indicated. I have further collated some corresponding statistics from other sources, which I present in tabular form. The first were computed by Mr. Sibley from the records of the Middlesex Hospital, and refer to a total of 520 cases, 105 male, 415 female ; a part only of the table (published in the Med.-Chirurg. Trans. 42, 1859) is here given. Organ Male Female Organ Male Female Lip, mouth, &c. 27 3 Penis and scrotum. 8 Tongue . 9 5 Anus 4 I Tonsil, palate, pa- Bones . 9 6 rotid, &c. . 5 1 Lungs, liver, kid- Stomach and intes- neys, lymphatic tines . 9 5 system, thyroid Rectum . 4 7 body . 5 5 Nose, face, scalp . 10 9 (Esophagus . 2 1 Skin elsewhere 5 5 Breast . 1 191 Clitoris and labia . 13 Uterus . 156