Excerpt from The Breast: Its Anomalies, Its Diseases and Their Treatment However much we may deplore the fact that the essential cause of the neoplastic diseases remains unknown, and our inability, in the absence of that knowledge, to prevent such diseases, there are certain responsibilities arising from what we do know but do not properly utilize. The critical examination of the results of any large series of cases cannot but produce a profound impression and lead to the distressing realization of the fact, that we, as a profession, are far from the scientific application of much of the knowl edge already at our disposal.

Were we properly alive to the situation as it exists to-day, a death from external cancer would be the exception rather than the rule and it would be universally recognized and admitted that to temporize with a suspicion of malignant disease is criminal.

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