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A QUARTERLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CHEMISTRY. PHYSICS AND<br />

THERAPEUTICS OF RADIUM AND RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES<br />

Copyright 1924 by Radium Chemical Co.<br />

Edited by Charles H. Viol. Ph. D., and William H. Cameron. M. D.. with the assist<br />

collaborators working in the fieldsof Radiochemistry. Radioactivity and Radiumtherapy.<br />

Address all communications to the Editors. Forbes and Meyran Avenues,<br />

Pittsburgh. Pa.<br />

Annual Subscription $2.00. Single Copies 50 Cents.<br />

VOL. 3, New Series JULY, 1924 No 2<br />

CARCINOMA OF THE BODY OF THE UTERUS (WITH<br />

THE REPORT OF 115 CASES)*<br />

By Charles C. Norris, M. D*. and M. E. Voct, M. D.<br />

Philadelphia. Pa.<br />

With the advent of radium, the study of carcinoma has received a<br />

great stimulus, and perhaps in no variety greater than that which occurs<br />

in the uterus. Probably owing to the unsatisfactory results secured by<br />

operative intervention and probably also to the greater frequency of the<br />

neoplasm, this interest has been rather centered about cervical cancer.<br />

The following study embodies the results obtained by operation and<br />

irradiation in a series of 115 consecutive carcinomata of the body of the<br />

'uterus, especially emphasizing the end-results.<br />

Carcinoma of the uterus may be divided into that form which originates<br />

in the cervix and that which springs from the fundus. These<br />

are different tumors, histologically and clinically, and a definite line<br />

should he drawn between them. Carcinoma of the fundus is less common<br />

than that of the cervix. Among 12.514 gynecologic patients observed<br />

during the last 23 years at the University Hospital, there have<br />

been 115 cases of fundal carcinoma. During a like period 346 cases<br />

of cervical carcinoma have been observed among 756 cases of carcinoma<br />

of the genital tract. Thus in our series, carcinoma of the fundus constituted<br />

about 15.2 per cent of all cancers of the genital tract and about<br />

25 per cent of all uterine cancers. Frank1 places the former figure between<br />

10 to 15 per cent; Peterson2 18.8 per cent; and Wilson3 11.2 per<br />

cent.<br />

It is an established fact that chronic irritation is a distinct predisposing<br />

factor towards cancer. Cervicitis, especially in cervices which<br />

"Reprinted by permission from The American Journal or Obstetrics and<br />

Gynecology, vll. 55

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