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Identifier: breastitsanomali00deav (find matches)
Title: The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Deaver, John B. (John Blair), 1855-1931
Subjects: Breast Breast X-rays Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Radiotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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diseases. But it has happened that in every case which I have beenable to watch, cancer of the mammary gland has followed within at the most two years, and usuallywithin one year. The eruption has resisted all the treatment, both local and general, that has been used,and has continued even after the affected part of the skin has been involved in the cancerous disease. The formation of cancer has not in any case taken place first in the diseased part of the skin. Ithas always been in the substance of the mammary gland, beneath or not far from the diseased skin, andalways with a clear interval of apparently healthy tissue. In the cancers themselves, I have seen in thesecases nothing peculiar. They have been various in form; some acute, some chronic, the majority follow-ing an average course, and all tending to the same end; recurring if removed, affecting lymph glands anddistant parts, showing nothing which might not be written in the ordinary history of cancer of the breast. Plate VIII
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Pagets disease. (Hirst.) THE DISEASES OF THE NIPPLE AND AREOLA 687 The single noteworthy fact found in all these cases is that which I have stated in the first sentence,and I think it deserves careful study. From the appearance of this contribution to the present time, increasing interest hasbeen taken in the disease, which has become universally known as Pagets disease, andmany case reports, pathological studies and monographs have appeared in print. Howfrequent the disease is, is difficult to say for not all cases, by any means, have beenpublished, and doubtless many of the cases that have been published as such are not whatis now recognized by pathologists as Pagets disease. The literature appended to thissection contains references to approximately 300 cases of what has been recognized asPagets disease by those who have studied and reported them, about 250 having probablybeen the real thing. The description given by Paget shows that the clinical appearance of the 15 casesthat he o

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