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Lin Xian in north-central China is a 20 mile square area in which one out of four people die of cancer of the oesophagus - more than 100 times the normal rate. Shows how a team of scientists try to find the...
Is death from squamous carcinoma of the cervix preventable? This presentation describes how squamous carcinoma is usually, if not always, preceded by a pre-cancerous lesion, carcinoma in situ, and explains...
An elderly widow combines hypochondria with an ability to irritate. Her children are used to humouring her, but when they learn she is dying of cancer they are forced to rethink their attitudes.
Describes the technique of radiotherapy of cancer of the rectum prior to surgery. Shows in detail standard surgical resections of the rectal tumours. Claims are made for significant improvement in five-year...
Postulates a new classification of site for a patient with carcinoma of the oesophagus and shows the finer surgical techniques of the three types of approach to the tumour. Also shows the importance of...
The first demonstration that the endocrine system can influence human breast cancer was in 1896, when Beatson described remission of advanced local disease following oophorectomy. Since then work both in...
Two patients suffering from cancer discuss with their wives and with each other what it means to know that they are dying. Each learned his diagnosis at a different stage in his illness and each felt that...
Shows the features in diagnosis and assessment of operability of carcinoma occurring in the middle third of, or diffusely in a wide segment of, the oesophagus. Emphasises the importance of preparation of...
Time-lapse photography and the phase-contrast microscope are used to show behaviour and functions of normal cells and cancer cells taken from a human lung and kept alive for research.
Concerned almost entirely with diagnosis of stomach cancer at a stage early enough for there to be a reasonable hope of permanent cure after operation, and indicates the kind of symptoms which should arouse...
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