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Clinical and Histologic Data on 1,025 Lesions

DAVID G. WELTON, M.D.; JOSEPH A. ELLIOTT, M.D.; PAUL KIMMELSTIEL, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1949;60(2):277-293.

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While the specific etiology of cancer continues to elude detection by any means of investigation known to medical science, epithelium continues to provide both researcher and clinician with an easily available site for studying the behavior of this pathologic mystery. The importance of the skin as a site of primary cancer has been recognized apparently since ancient times. According to Oberling, "The first primitive notions on what was later to be named cancer must have come from watching ulcerations of the skin that were refractory to all treatment, for an account of these in an Egyptian papyrus of the fifteenth century B. C. constitutes one of the earliest known references to the disease."¹

Many of our patients, including some of very little formal education, recognize epitheliomas on their own persons and present themselves more or less resigned to what they fear is a serious fate. Fortunately, they . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Pathologist, Charlotte Memorial Hospital CHARLOTTE, N. C.

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