The significance of recurrence in breast cancer

✍ Scribed by Ian C. K. Tough

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 389 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800531020

✦ Synopsis

SIGNIFICANCE OF RECURRENCE IN BREAST CANCER 897 absorptive and secretory behaviour. It is hoped that with the study of more patients further light may be thrown on the structure and function of the diseased colon.

Acknowledgements.-The patients and the normal subjects, for whose consent and co-operation I am grateful, were studied in the University Departments of Surgery of the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, and the Royal Infirmary, Cardiff. I should like to acknowledge my indebtedness to the heads of both departments, Professor Sir Charles Illingworth and Professor A. P. M. Forrest, for their active interest and encouragement and for allowing me to investigate patients under their care. I wish to thank Mr. J. B. Miles, F.R.C.S., and Miss Margaret Davies who assisted with the investigations in 2 of the patients.