PROGNOSIS IN CARCINOMA OF THE STOMACH

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Abstract
The literature on carcinoma of the stomach is so voluminous that writers should refrain from adding to the confusion unless they follow some uniform plan of record, such as that proposed by Greenough and Simmons.1 In analyzing our cases we lay no claim to special success in securing what are apparently a few cures, but present even such modest results as a challenge to a disease which unmolested always carries the patient to his grave with absolute certainty. If it could be shown, for instance, that a patient with cancer of the stomach may live untreated for five years, then our conclusions regarding the efficacy of surgical eradication would be unsound. But lacking such proof, we must rely on the surgical method as the only successful means of treatment.2 The stomach is the most common site of human cancer (fig. 13). The statistics from which the diagram

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