Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer of the Lung
- 11 October 1951
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 245 (15) , 555-559
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195110112451502
Abstract
EVERY physician who is in active practice shoulders part of the cancer burden. People look to us for advice and help, individually and collectively, if they fall prey to such a terrible disease. Until the time comes when the causes are known and preventive programs or specific cures are developed, progress in treatment must depend on earlier detection and the prompt and skillful use of known weapons, principally excision.Cancer in any location presents a challenge. The ingenuity of both the physician who discovers it and the surgeon who removes it is taxed to the limit, especially if the original . . .Keywords
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