Panel on Cancer Detection

Abstract

Dr. Ellison cites the dramatic improvement in curability of cancer when it is discovered in an asymptomatic stage and discusses exfoliative cytologic technics and other methods to detect gastrointestinal cancer. Dr. F. Jackson Stoddard points out that application of existing methods of diagnosis and treatment can virtually eliminate death from cancer of the cervix and reduce the mortality rate of endometrial cancer to 10 per cent or less. Dr. Donald J. Ferguson examines the indications for biopsy of breast lesions and the significance of the histologic findings. Dr. Laurence F. Greene stresses the importance of rectal examinations to discover prostatic carcinoma and describes corroborative and definitive evidence for this diagnosis. Dr. Edward J. Beattie, Jr. compares the accuracy of procedures for diagnosis of lung cancer and the merits of different modes of treatment.