The practice of surgery . to enumerate the countless modifications and sugges-tions upon this subject by recent writers. 522 THE CHEST In spite of tho improvement in our statistics surgeons have not restedcontent with the results of radical breast operations, and numerousand carefully conducted investigations on other lines of treatment con-stantly are being made. So far such endeavors have accomplishedlittle. The a:-rays, violet rays, and radium are nearly valueless, thoughthey may relieve pain; and the much-vaunted trypsin injections of Beardare not making good the claims of their original a
The practice of surgery . to enumerate the countless modifications and sugges-tions upon this subject by recent writers. 522 THE CHEST In spite of tho improvement in our statistics surgeons have not restedcontent with the results of radical breast operations, and numerousand carefully conducted investigations on other lines of treatment con-stantly are being made. So far such endeavors have accomplishedlittle. The a:-rays, violet rays, and radium are nearly valueless, thoughthey may relieve pain; and the much-vaunted trypsin injections of Beardare not making good the claims of their original advocate. A few jearsago Beatsons operation^ seemed to promise something. Beatsons opera-tion consists in removing the ovaries for the supposed effect which theloss of those organs has upon the epithelial cells in the breast. Al-though a few cases of notable improvement in breast cancer followingBeatsons operation have been reported, the number of successes bythis method arc too few to warrant confidence in the ctcil fpersonal case). AMiile cancer is that form of breast timior most interesting and im-portant because of its frequency and fatality, numerous other new-growths are to be found in the breast, some of them benign, some ofthem doubtful, some of them truly malignant. Fibroma is a commontumor of the benign class; sarcoma is a somewhat rare tumor of themalignant class. Most of these non-cancerous tumors are allied toeach other in structure and origin, so that a brief consideration of thewhole class simis up for us our knowledge of breast tumors other thancancer. In a previous paragraph I spoke of a characteristic myxomatousconnective tissue which develops about the terminal ducts and acini ofthe normal breast, it is with this periductal connective tissue that we^ Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, editorial, September 2, 1905. CANCER OF THE I?i;EA,ST 523 have to deal when we consider benign breast tumors, and I avail myselfof J. C. Warrens admirable classification, to wh
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