AGE INCIDENCE IN CARCINOMA
- 1 November 1913
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. XII (5) , 539-545
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1913.00070050056005
Abstract
The progressive increase in the incidence of carcinoma as the middle period of life is approached and reached has long been recognized. Most writers have contented themselves with a statement of this fact, leaving the reader to understand that even in advanced years the progressive increase is maintained. For instance, Bashford1 says : "Carcinoma appears in the human subject with increasing frequency as life advances." He recognizes, however, that the carcinoma incidence in those organs which undergo a definite phase of involution long before senile changes in the organism as a whole are marked, is highest during such involutionary processes. This he bases on statistics of breast and uterine cancer. Senn2 gives a suggestion that in extreme old age the cancer incidence is decreased, as the following quotation shows : "Carcinoma manifests a predilection for the conditions incident to senile marasmus, occurring most frequently in persons between 50 and 70Keywords
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