An anthropometric study of women with cancer.

A number of published studies have also indicated that there may be some association between incidence ofcancer and constitutional type. Sheldon, Hartl, and McDermott (1949) published some somatotype distributions of patients with cancer of the breast and uterus at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, and the distributions showed the patients to be predominantly endomorphic mesomorphs. As this tendency also appeared in patients suffering from other diseases at the same hospital, it might well have been due to selection.