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RESULTS AFTER FROM SEVEN TO TWENTY YEARS IN A SERIES OF CASES STUDIED WITH REFERENCE TO THE RAPIDITY OF PREOPERATIVE GROWTH

E. MacD. STANTON, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1935;30(4):629-634.

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In the April 1928 issue of the ARCHIVES OF SURGERY¹ I reported the end-results recorded up to July 1927 in the cases of fifty-four patients with cancer of the breast on whom I operated at some time between July 1907 and January 1926. In this paper I wish to summarize the results obtained in this same group of patients over an additional period of six and one-half years, namely, until death or until January 1934. Although the number of patients in this series is not large, I know of no other series of equal size in which all of the patients have been traced over as long a period. For the thirteen survivors in this group, the period since operation ranges from seven years and ten months to twenty years and six months, the average postoperative period being twelve years and nine months.

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SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

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