A report on the late results of operation for cancer of the breast (Leeds).

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Health. Committee on Cancer.
Date:
1926
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Credit: A report on the late results of operation for cancer of the breast (Leeds). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE 2. Showing the nature of the evidence as to the condition of the axillary glands, upon which the classification was based. Class I. | Class II. |Classtiz.| , | | Totals. classified. (a) Clinieal data only 30 16 35 8 89 (6) Pathological data only ton 13 aes Pa) 1 46 (c) Both (a) and (6) 15 83 5] 1 150 (ad) Neither (a) nor (6) 27 2 Fi 36 72 Totals .. ms 87 124 100 46 B57 Further details of (¢):— Both data agree = 14 66 36 0 116 Data disagree a 1 17 15 1 34 15 SSE aden £51 ss 150 Disagreement occurred as follows :— Class I. Clinical data + ve: pathological — ve 1 case. ral aol BES a. >» — ve a + ve 14 cases. 99 (db 2” 29 55 ve 99 ee ME: 3 99 99 IT. 29 29 = NAS. 29 oe ve a 29 9 IIT. + 29 29 —- ve 29 paangen l=) 8 2 Unclassified _,, » tve.. . — ve l case 34 cases PART. II The Age and Civil State of the Patients. As a matter of interest the age and civil state of the patients have been worked out. The results correspond so closely to those Ninga published} that it seems unnecessary to give them in etail. | The mean ages in the several civil states are given below, and the figures in brackets are those in the report referred to. Married. Widowed. Single. Total. Mean age at operation .. 50-06 60-80 48-3 51:19 yrs. ut ee (49-5) (58-9) — (49°7) (51-4) _,, Percentage incidence .. 70:5 13°5 16-0 $ 7 . (57-5) (19-7): (228) There is a higher proportion of married women among the ye special gland only cut, apparently the highest axillary gland ound. + The growth was adherent, and the muscle or the skin ulcerated, or some other organ or tissue involved. { Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects. No. 32. Ministry of Health, 1926.