Abstract
The Early Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer
Highlights
The Early Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer. We owe it to the courtesy of the Editor of the British Medical Journal, who has forwarded advance proofs, that we are enabled this week to print in outline the report of the Committee appointed by the British Medical Association to consider how best to secure the earlier diagnosis and treatment of uterine cancer
On reading through this document, among the first impressions gained is one almost of humiliation that it should be necessary in the twentieth century to point out to qualified men their bounden duty to make a physical examination of those of their patients whose symptoms are suggestive of malignant disease
The expert in fevers who sees a faucial inflammation of suspicious aspect does not wait until he has cultivated the bacillus diphtheriae before injecting antitoxin; why should the medical man confronted by a symptom possibly due to a much more terrible disease? carcinoma of the uterus?refrain from diagnosis and treatment until the first is obvious and the second impossible? The answer, is that his patients are not so enthusiastic about a pelvic examination as of an inspection of their fauces; at least, no other of any weight suggests itself
Summary
On reading through this document, among the first impressions gained is one almost of humiliation that it should be necessary in the twentieth century to point out to qualified men their bounden duty to make a physical examination of those of their patients whose symptoms are suggestive of malignant disease. We owe it to the courtesy of the Editor of the British Medical Journal, who has forwarded advance proofs, that we are enabled this week to print in outline the report of the Committee appointed by the British Medical Association to consider how best to secure the earlier diagnosis and treatment of uterine cancer.
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