An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . TUMORS. 77 the cancerous uterus, but the immense number of cases of cancer of theuterus, in many of which coition has been continued long after ulceration hastaken place, is in striking contrast to the rarity of the corresponding diseasein the penis. In spite of the careful search which has been made by investi-gators all over the world for more than a century, there are not more than twoor three authentic cases on record of the simultaneous occurrence of cancer ofthe uterus and penis in a married couple, and
An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . TUMORS. 77 the cancerous uterus, but the immense number of cases of cancer of theuterus, in many of which coition has been continued long after ulceration hastaken place, is in striking contrast to the rarity of the corresponding diseasein the penis. In spite of the careful search which has been made by investi-gators all over the world for more than a century, there are not more than twoor three authentic cases on record of the simultaneous occurrence of cancer ofthe uterus and penis in a married couple, and this small number indicates thattheir combination was probably a simple coincidence. This supposition,therefore, is absolutely without foundation in facts. Another favoritehypothesis in the etiology of cancer is the influence of heredity, but ithas even less basis in the case of cancer affecting the penis than in the samedisease elsewhere, for only two or three cases are known in which cancerexisted in the parents of an individual afflicted with cancer of the penis. Asin the case
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