San Francisco cancer survey : third preliminary report (fifth and sixth quarterly reports) / by Frederick L. Hoffman.

  • Hoffman, Frederick L. (Frederick Ludwig), 1865-1946.
Date:
[between 1920 and 1933]
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Credit: San Francisco cancer survey : third preliminary report (fifth and sixth quarterly reports) / by Frederick L. Hoffman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SAN I HAN( ISCO CANCKK SI KVKV INTUODUCTION 'Pile present consolidated report Tor tlic Fifth and Sixth Quarters of the San l-ranciseo Survey covers the six months ending with Deccniher .'51, 192.0. A large amount of new material has been examined, tahulated and critically considered as lar as the availahle time and circumstances would l)ermit. I’rohahly more than 2().l)()() caiuau' death certificates are now re¬ ceiving specialized consideration, aside from apjiroximatcly 1,200 com¬ pleted (piestionnaires eoncernitig living cancer patients in San Francisco, Hullalo. Newark, New Orleans and the State of Alassachusetts. Progress ^\ith so large an amount ol data is necessariU slow, hut the present puh- lication will add materially to the inlormation now availahle. It is thus apparent that what is called tlie San Francisco (iancer Survey has unintentionally develo])ed into a survey of national scope and interest. Phis has heen una\oidalde. to supply tlu* uses of eom|)aratlve or control data, since no similar tahulation or analysis has heretofore heen attempted for this eountr\. Of sjiecial impoitance is an arrangement entered into with the Alayo (.linic through the courtesy of Dr. William J. Alayo and Dr. A erne Hunt. h\ which cai;eer (piestionnaires are being Pilled in for me at the clinic and will later he amplified by a follow-up system to provide a check u|ion jiost-operative results. Fapially important is a satisfactory arrangement entered into with the State Institute foi the Study of Alalignant Disease, at IBuffalo, N. A^., through the kindness of Di. Ruiton T. Simp.son, of llufTalo. At the Institute a special investigator, Aliss Rachel .fenss (Vassar, 192.5), is, under my direction, .securing information eoneerniiig living cancer patients liy means of a (piestionnaire, in a uniform manner with investigations made in other cities and sections. Sjieeial attention, how'ever, is being given in Buffalo to matters of diet, fecundity and h.'redil\. In addition to the foregoing subject, the tn'atmeni by radium is receiv¬ ing particular consideration. This aspect of the investigation, however, is rather iinolved. particularly as regards alter-treatment results, as to which, however, some valuable information should in tlu' course of time he forthcoming. A similar arrangement could he alVecled with the hospital of the Fniversily of (adifornia at San Francisco, which has prohahK the most complete caiK’er records of any iiisliliilion in this counlry. espi'ciallv as regards gynecological easi's.