Excerpt from The Question of the Curability of Cancer of the BreastThe great change which has been wrought by the exten sion of the field of Operation in cancer of the breast, and the improved technique of the operation introduced from time to time and more noticeably of recent years by Hal sted, give renewed interest to statistics in this operation as they continue to accumulate.The contrast between the rare successes of former years and the present time I have already called attention to in a recent paper.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.