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110 Radium
Fig. II. Same Tumor as Fig. 9. Base implanted with
radium seeds
Sise of carcinoma in the 30 cases, dead or dying (Infiltrating carcin
5 sq. cm 2
10 sq. cm 5
15 sq. cm 4
20 sq. cm 5
30 sq. cm 5
40 sq. cm 2
50 sq. cm 1
60 sq. cm 1
70 sq. cm 1
100 sq. cm 1
Kntire vault and later walls originating in prostate ("').. I
Diffuse all ocvr bladder 2
// is only fair to our operotwe statistics to say that we have opened
up all cases in which we believed the carcinoma was confined to the
bladder, and no matter how large the carcinoma was, we have implanted
radium, knowing that in many cases We could do but little. In I case
the entire half of the bladder was filledwith an infiltrating carcinoma.
The patient was seventy-two years of age, and today, three years after
operation, he is entirely well, sleeping Ihe night through without urinating.
Another patient had a tumor of the anterior bladder wall, as
large as a hen's egg. growing through the bladder, and adherent to the
pelvis. This patient has no bladder tumor four years after cystotomy.
So occasionally very large tumors can be controlled. Of the two small
carcinomas each 5 sq. cm. in area, which have died, one probably originated
in the seminal vesicles, but was not so diagnosed. The other