CANCER OF THE CERVIX

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I have worked in a tumor clinic for sixteen years, have personally treated several hundred cancers of the cervix in private practice, have had about the average number of local recurrences, almost all of which were within five years, and have seen numerous examples of late metastases; but the following case report of a local recurrence of a squamous cell cancer of the cervix eighteen years after radium therapy is so unusual that I consider it best to record it in the literature. I have never seen a local recurrence this late after any squamous cell cancer, i. e., lip, skin, larynx, pharynx, bladder, tongue or cervix, regardless of whether it was treated by surgical excision or irradiation. Also, I have never seen a new cancer develop in a cervix which had been previously treated by radium. After a fairly extensive review of the literature on cervical cancer the records

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