Implantation Recurrence of Carcinoma of Rectum and Colon

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Abstract
IT is well recognized that cancer cells implanted onto a raw tissue surface are capable not only of surviving there but also of growing and forming a metastatic nodule. Accordingly, when a malignant tumor is being excised, care is taken, whenever possible, not to transgress the limits of the growth or to cut across invaded tissue, for if either occurs the surgeon's gloves and instruments are likely to become contaminated with malignant cells and spread them throughout the wound. Recurrences by this method are well documented after operations for carcinoma of the breast, bladder and ovary.1 In addition it is . . .