Abstract
To the Editor:— InThe Journal, March 7, page 855, is a statement with regard to cancer of the prostate. This statement is untrue, and I seriously object to having it go unchallenged, because there is no question of the fact that many patients with early carcinoma in our clinic have been cured by total radical perineal prostatectomy and seminal vesiculectomy, and I know that this is true in several other clinics. I hope that you will do what you can to correct this misstatement. The thing to be encouraged is that every male patient over 50 should have a rectal examination done; if there is a suspicious nodule present the patient should be sent to a competent urologist, who will proceed to take a biopsy, and if proved to be positive the biopsy should be followed by a total perineal prostatectomy and seminal vesiculectomy after the method proposed by
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