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Title: The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Deaver, John B. (John Blair), 1855-1931
Subjects: Breast Breast X-rays Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Radiotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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s cases occurringin each quinquennial age period is given in the following table: Table III.—Age iNcnDENCE (Williams)Age . Number of cases 15-20. II 20-25 ^^ 25-30 6 30-35 - ■ ; 5 35-40 ; ■ 9 40-45 6 45-50 I 5°-55 I 55-60 1 60-65 _J: 52 Benign tumors of the breasts of very aged women have been reported by manywriters, including Velpeau (85 years). Gross (74 years), and Sheild (102 years). Notwithstanding the frequency with which benign tumors occur in the breasts ofyoung women and the comparative rarity of malignant tumors in the young, the physi-cian should never forget the possibility of the occurrence of carcinoma in the breast ofany woman who has passed the age of puberty. 456 THE BREAST The time of tumor development in the breast in relation to the menopause has verylittle diagnostic significance. As shown in the following table, the greater majority ofbenign mammary tumors occur before the climacteric but the same is true of a not in-considerable proportion of carcinomas.
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Fig. 167.—Diffuse fibroma of the breast of a young colored girl. (Jopson, Speese and White.) Table IV.—The Time Incidence or Mammahy Tumors in Relation with the MenopauseFibro-epithelial Tumors Number of cases Per cent. Before the menopause gi gi After the menopause 7 7 Males 2 2 Before the menopause.After the menopause.. Males No record nber of cases95753 27 200 Per cent. 47-5 36.5 i-S 14-5 100.o THE NON-INDIGENOUS TUMORS OF THE MAMMARY GLAND 457 A certain proportion of benign fibro-epithelial tumors occur in the breasts of young,neurotic, unmarried women who also suffer from disordered or even arrested menstrua-tion. Too much attention must not be paid to this sta tement, however, as another groupis composed of otherwise perfectly healthy women. Menstrual disorders, therefore,seem to have no etiological influence in mammary tumor formation; the single or themarriage state, as well as pregnancy and lactation, can be dismissed as causal factors. Table V.—German Hospital Cases Fi

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