Abstract
To the Editor: —InThe Journal, July 25, p. 311, appears the following brief review of an article in the Revista de Cirurgia ( 4 :55 [April] 1925), by Avelino Gutierrez, entitled Extirpation of the Tongue. Gutierrez illustrates the technic he has successfully applied, but warns that the patient has, for a long time, to feed himself through a stomach tube. The glands must be removed, even with a small cancer in the tongue. Physicians should know the real facts about the results in the operative treatment of cancer; if they do, they will realize that the percentage of cures of cancer depends today more on the improvement of the method and the extension of the education of the public and the profession, than on any extension of the operation, or improvement in the treatment with roentgen rays or with radium. InThe Journal, July 16, 1921, p. 220, I summarized
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