The practice of surgery . lip, yet it should be obvious to every qualified physician that cancerof the lip in its method of growth is analogous to cancer of the breast, CANCER OF THE LIP 551 and demands equally thorough and far-reaching cxtiipation. I be-lieve that a mere local removal of young lip cancer is always improper—as improper as the mere local removal of a small breast cancer. The treatment of lip cancer must be thorough and early therefore,and when such treatment properly is followed, the surgeon should lookfor a large percentage of permanent cures. For some years I have fol-lowed t
The practice of surgery . lip, yet it should be obvious to every qualified physician that cancerof the lip in its method of growth is analogous to cancer of the breast, CANCER OF THE LIP 551 and demands equally thorough and far-reaching cxtiipation. I be-lieve that a mere local removal of young lip cancer is always improper—as improper as the mere local removal of a small breast cancer. The treatment of lip cancer must be thorough and early therefore,and when such treatment properly is followed, the surgeon should lookfor a large percentage of permanent cures. For some years I have fol-lowed the technic advocated by Crile.^ While I believe firmly in ex-tensive dissection of the neck for cancer of the lip, I agree with Crilethat such extensive dissection need not be invariable. In operating forearly cancer it is enough to remove thoroughly the growth in the lip andto dissect out the tissue—fat, platysma, vessels, and lymphatic and sali-vary glands in the digastric region, corresponding to the side on which.
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