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Comparison of Open and "Punch" Biopsy Techniques

PERRY B. HUDSON, M.D.; ALEX L. FINKLE, M.D.; HAROLD M. JOST, M.D.; ARISTIDES TRIFILIO, M.D.; ARTHUR PURDY STOUT, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1955;70(4):508-512.

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With the progressive increase in life span of the average American man, there has been a concomitant increase in the clinical incidence of and the death rate from adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland.¹ This increasing death rate from prostatic cancer seems surprising when one considers that a curative operation for early prostatic cancer was described almost 50 years ago.² Moreover, the cancer-free survival of properly selected prostatic cancer patients subjected to radical perineal prostatectomy compares favorably with curative surgery for adenocarcinoma arising in other parts of the body.³ The increasing prostatic cancer death rate must then be attributed to the well known fact that even today approximately 95% of all prostatic cancers are first diagnosed clinically in metastatic phase.⁴ Although promising palliative methods, notably castration and the administration of estrogenic substances, have altered the prognosis for the metastatically involved patient somewhat, such an individual lives only . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Departments of Urology and Pathology, Francis Delafield Hospital, and the Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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