. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. - 497 Uterus. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. quently the victims of cancerous disease than are of the uterus is almost as common as cancer ofthe stomach. Malignant disease of the uterus is most common dur-ing the first five years after the menopause, and about cent, of all women who suffer from disease of theuterus during this time have cancer. The majority ofwomen who have cancer are, or have been, and labor alone
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. - 497 Uterus. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. quently the victims of cancerous disease than are of the uterus is almost as common as cancer ofthe stomach. Malignant disease of the uterus is most common dur-ing the first five years after the menopause, and about cent, of all women who suffer from disease of theuterus during this time have cancer. The majority ofwomen who have cancer are, or have been, and labor alone, however, do not cause a pic-disposition to cancer of the uterus, and multipara show-no greater tendency than others. Difficult and instru-mental labors, with great laceration of the parts, may pre-dispose the patient to malignant disease. Prostitutesare not particularly liable to cancer of the uterus. Schroeder has suggested that profound mental impres-sions, , sorrow, trouble of any sort, might be a factorin accounting for the greater frequency of cancer amongthe poorer classes; but it would seem more probable that Fio. 4423.—Carcinoma Involving the Uterus, Anterior Vaginal Wall ofthe Vagina, ami Posterior Cul-de-sac. a. «, Bladder with walls muchthickened ; b. b. body of uterus with no carcinomatous infiltration ;c, c, the growth affecting the anterior and posterior vaginal walls;((, lower portion of the vagina. poor food and poor hygienic surroundings would ac-count better for the greater prevalence of this diseaseamong the lower classes. Traumatism is not considered a cause of the formationof uterine tumors. Cohnheim attributed the origin ofcancer of the uterus and all other tumors to irregularitiesin the formation of embryonic development, an excessiveproliferation of certain cells at a very early age of the in-dividual. Gusserow is in favor of this theory of Cohnheim,but Winckel opposes it, principally because the vaginalportion and not the vulva is the mos
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