Excessive Menstrual Bleeding: Its Treatment by X-Rays; and the Management of Patients Suffering from Cancer of the Breast
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These are two addresses which appeared in London medical journals. Their main object is to emphasize the advantages of z-rays in the treatment of menstrual hajmorrhage and of breast cancer. The author is a confirmed optimist and seems to have had more fortune than his radiological confreres. This of course may be due to luck or to a careful selection of cases; for most gynaecologists of wide experience extending over years are not of opinion that x-rays are in 90 per cent, of cases successful and without risk. My own experience of numberless cases, treated in Europe and in the East, is that the psychical symptoms of the menopause subsequent to over-enthusiastic radiological treatment are more serious and more permanent than those of surgery. As regards breast cancer it would seem that surgery combined with radium and
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