The nature of the cancerous processes and the cancerous cachexia, and the relation of local irritation to each / by Roswell Park.

  • Park, Roswell, 1852-1914.
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[1900?]
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Credit: The nature of the cancerous processes and the cancerous cachexia, and the relation of local irritation to each / by Roswell Park. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disturbances of important organs which may be the result of mechanical obstruction ; as, for instance, pressure upon the biliary passages in cancer of the pancreas, pressure upon the ureters in cancer of the uterus, etc. Moreover, we must not lose sight of the anemia consequent upon hemor¬ rhages or disturbed nutrition, and of the secondary infections, mostly septic, which are likely when the growths are near or upon the surface, including the absorption of ptomaines, etc., under whose constant influence visceral degenerations may easily occur. Furthermore, frequency of renal lesions must not be forgotten, as, for instance, according to Schrader, parenchymatous nephritis occurred ten times in fifty cases of cancer of the stomach. Even this list is necessarily ' r v ; incomplete ; nevertheless, it will shot how many factors are to be taken int« consideration in accounting for ^thj reduced condition of the cancer patient, which will vary more or less according to the character and loca-J tion of the tumor, visceral lesions producing them more rapidly thai those of the connective tissue, ad glandular cancers beings probably th« most fatal of all. 510 Delaware Avenue. [Those interested in this subject are invited tc read also a paper by the writer entitled “ Agair the Question of Cancer,” read before thq Medical Society of the State of New York] January 31, 1900, and published in the Medical News for March 3. 1900. It is, in fact| the complement of the above paper which was read before the New York Academy of Medicine February 15, 1900, and the two should be re¬ garded as constituting a single contribution to the subject of cancer.]