AGE INCIDENCE OF GASTRIC CANCER

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It has been generally accepted as a fact by practitioners that cancer is confined within the limits of a minimum and maximum age, reaching the apex of frequency during the sixth decade of life. So common has this belief become that the phrase "cancer age" has gained a ready currency not only among physicians but among laymen as well. Like most other generalities, this concept of cancer is only partly true, and, so far as its practical import in diagnosis is concerned, must be regarded as a dangerous half-truth. Cabot1writes: "We are accustomed to say that when a patient past forty years begins to have dyspepsia out of a clear sky—that is, without any obvious cause or any previous habit—cancer is the most probable diagnosis; but when saying this we must remember that the cancer age is also the arteriosclerotic age, and, therefore, the time for nephritis and

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