On excision of the entire uterus for cancer, with notes of a successful operation : being an abstract of two lectures delivered at the Cancer Hospital, on March 5th and 12th, 1886 / by Chas. E. Jennings.
- Jennings, Charles Egerton
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On excision of the entire uterus for cancer, with notes of a successful operation : being an abstract of two lectures delivered at the Cancer Hospital, on March 5th and 12th, 1886 / by Chas. E. Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![ditions is difficult to understand. The initiation of cancer by external irritants has been dwelt upon at some length ; its frequent origin from leucoma of the, tongue, or from fissures and abrasions of the mucosa of that organ, has been proved, together with the logical ])revention of cancer by the removal of such small foci by treat- ment, before they have assumed a chronic con- dition and become developed into a chronic inflammation. We are therefore constrained to think that fissures and simple ulcers of the cervix uteri, when permitted to run their course un- checked, frequently become the precursors of uterine cancer. At all events, however easy it may be to draw a hard-and-fast line upon paper of the differential diagnosis of simple chronic infiltration of the cervix and of the infiltration due to malignant disease, or to give the differ- ential diagnosis of simple and cancerous ulcera- tion, yet clinically no more difficult puzzle is presented to the practitioner than to form a correct opinion in many instances which fall under his observation. Such, in outline, is the evidence which supports the view that a cancer-tumour is, whilst small, a purely local affection, and immunity from recurrence usually attends early and free excisions of these tumours. Unfortunately for themselves, patients affected with cancer are not usually presented to operators whilst the primary tumours are in their earliest stages, and the bulk of cases operated upon are in consequence those where the disease has pro-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22294752_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
