Squamous Celled Epithelioma Due to Kangri Burn
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Senior Surgeon, Kashmir Mission Hospital. At the present time the causation of cancer is being so vigorously investigated that at any time a flood of light may he thrown upon the whole subject. Meanwhile, although the origin of many forms of malignant disease is involved in profound obscurity, there are certain types of cancer, which have a sharply defined causation. The kanqri cancer is a case in point. This affection is considerably commoner in men. This is perhaps due to women not using the kangri so continuously as men, owing to domestic
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