On changes in the recorded mortality from cancer and their possible interpretation / by Major Greenwood, jun., and Frances Wood.

  • Greenwood, Major, 1880-1949.
Date:
1914
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Credit: On changes in the recorded mortality from cancer and their possible interpretation / by Major Greenwood, jun., and Frances Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after-results of operations have been greatly improved ; but it is also true that a large, undetermined, proportion of hospital patients are first seen when the disease has advanced so far as to be inoperable. We have, therefore, to set against the saving of lives due to operation the addition to the death-rate of inoperable cases, some of which might not have been diagnosed apart from the hospital. Whether the accounts LIVER RECTUM Index numbers showing the changes in the crude death-rates from cancer of certain organs of the body with the best fitting straight lines, 1897-1911, Males. balance is a point we have no means of deciding. Even so apparently simple a matter as the saving of lives by operation is difficult to study, because all surgeons do not adopt the same criterion of “ cure ” (see Lewers, pp. 141-142). The general conclusion deducible from this analysis of site-rates