If the body's immune system can stop the growth of the cancers and begin to turn them back before the cancer cells impinge catastrophically on some vital function, the person can usually survive.
And the die-off of largecancers produces a lot of toxins, burdening the organs of elimination.
They divide up cancers and their treatments by their location in the body and by the type of cancer cells present.
If surgery is done in conjunction with rebuilding the immune system, the body will prevent new cancers from forming.
Cancers of mucous membranes are less amenable to ray treatment because they are less circumscribed and are difficult of access.
There is itching but little pain, and the condition progresses extremely slowly; rodent cancers which have existed for many years are frequently met with.
In rodent cancers of limited size--say less than one inch in diameter--free excision is the most rapid and certain method of treatment.
In rodent cancers of the skin, for example, both radium and X-ray treatment are very successful, and are to be preferred to operation because they yield a better cosmetic result.
Excepting certain cancers which give rise to metastases by lymphatic permeation (Handley), the common metastases arising in the bone-marrow reach their destination through the blood-stream.
Gilles now sees on the trunks frightful cancers and horrible wens.
Taking but little care of herself, she gets knocked about, first in one direction, and then in another, and very often is beaten by her husband, and cancers frequently arise from contusions.
There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible.
Such, madame, are the cancers fatal to queens; are you, too, free from their scourge?
A rather alluring suggestion was made by Cohnheim, years ago, that cancers might be due to the sudden resumption of growth on the part of islands or rests of embryonic tissue, left scattered about in various parts of the body.
Not less than sixty-five to seventy-five per cent of all cancers in women occur in atrophying organs, the uterus and mammary glands.
And then, again, it burns and itches and smarts, just as people say cancers always do.
White Leprosy cancerstheir stones, And gnaws at their worm-eaten walls!
These new cancers are known as metastatic cancers and are a signal of an advanced state of disease.
Illustration: Diagram of teletherapy unit] Most interesting of all is the principle by which internalcancers can be treated with a minimum of damage to the skin.
This fact limits the use of the test to skin cancers or to cancers exposed by surgery.
The reverse are cancers upon society--an annoyance to courts the sepulchres of their clients' money--living nuisances in the commoving mass.
They are cancers on the body politic loathsome to the sight of every friend of our country--to every advocate of our UNION.
There are many festering wounds on our body politic that need probing to the bottom--cancers that require the best treatment of the boldest operators in moral, religious and political surgery.
If Maurice Richardson's rule were followed, many cancers would never occur, or would be removed before they had developed sufficiently to show their nature.
Malignant tumors are divided into cancers (carcinomata) and sarcomas (sarcomata).
Allowing for uncertainties about the dynamics of a possible nuclear war, radiation-induced cancers and genetic damage together over 30 years are estimated to range from 1.
Papillomas of the eyelids sometimes change to cancers and should be removed by taking out a wedge-shaped section of the eyelid.
Again, the tissues of the aged gradually undergo atrophy, yet cancers arise at this time and grow rapidly.
This has been most successful in such superficial cancers as those of the eye, penis, anus, testicle, vulva, and sheath.
Cancers are tumors of epithelial tissues and are malignant.
The epidermoid cancers are less likely to recur after early removal; the medullary cancers are of rapid growth and prone to ulceration; while the fibrous or scirrhous forms are of extreme slowness of growth.
The papillary cancers of the skin and the villous cancers of mucous membranes are thus distinguished.
The alveolar contents of certain cutaneous cancers are cells resembling those of the deeper layers of the rete mucosum, while those of othercancers of the skin resemble rather the epithelium of sweat-glands.
The epithelioid cells of cutaneous cancers resemble those of the surface, the rete, or the glands of the skin.
The horn-like, keratoid, transformation of epidermoid cells in cutaneous cancers, the mucous degeneration of the epithelioid cells of cancers of mucous membranes, are sufficiently familiar.
This observer[83] claimed that the epithelioid element of cutaneous cancers arose in all instances from pre-existing epithelium, either of the rete mucosum or cutaneous glands.
Cancers of the stomach or uterus contain epithelioid cells whose shape simulates the varieties in the stomach and uterus.
The mucous and colloid cancers are those whose alveolar contents or stroma have undergone a mucous or colloid degeneration.
There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsations cannot be felt.
Taking but little care of herself, she gets knocked about first in one direction, and then in another, and very often is beaten by her husband, and cancers frequently rise from contusions.
When cancers get on the body politic like this of disfranchisement and debasement of an entire element of the citizenship, they are usually cut out, as that of slavery, and its exceeding horrors, were.
Epithelial cancers of the lower lip are very frequent, and require removal.
Cancers on the face are said to arise from the periosteum, and that unless this be destroyed by the knife, or by caustics, the cancer certainly recurs.
Externally the application of carbonic acid gas to cancers and other ulcers instead of atmospheric air may prevent their enlargement, by preventing the union of oxygen with matter, and thus producing a new contagious animal acid.
The cases that originate here show no percentage in either sex; but those that appear here as secondary cancers are three times as frequent in women as in men.
The reason that operations do not remove cancers permanently in a great number of cases is that such cases do not submit to operation soon enough.
It has been determined that certain normal adult cells divide more frequently than some cancer cells and that the growth of cancers depends not so much on the speed of cellular proliferation as on the number of cells actually dividing.
Several drugs that exert a beneficial effect, at least temporarily, on the course of certain cancers have been used by doctors for several years.
In this category of course are not included cases of continuous growth of oesophageal cancer into the stomach, but only metastatic cancers of the stomach.
The most troublesome symptoms of indigestion occur with thosecancers which by obstructing the pyloric orifice lead to dilatation of the stomach.
The discovery of secondary cancers in the liver, in the peritoneum, or in lymphatic glands may render valuable aid in diagnosis.
It is known that most cases formerly described as melanotic cancers are melanotic sarcomata, which originate usually in the skin or the eye and are accompanied frequently with abundant metastases.
If the sum-total of all the cases be taken, the conclusion would be that about one-fifth of all primary cancers are seated in the stomach, and somewhat less than one-third in the uterus.
I have preferred, therefore, to estimate in their collection of cases the number of cancers involving the whole stomach, according to the percentage for this class obtained from the other authors above cited.
Profuse haematemesis is more common with softcancers than with other forms.
Cancers of the stomach do not usually attain a very large size.
The frequency of painless gastriccancers is given by Lebert as 25 per cent.
In nearly one-third of the cases there are secondary cancersin the liver.
Footnote 85: The subject of multiple primary cancers is considered by Kauffmann (Virchow's Arch.
From this table it appears that three-fifths of all gastric cancers occupy the pyloric region, but it is not to be understood that in all of these cases the pylorus itself is involved.
Goode thought that the cancersmight have been caused artificially by X-rays or radium," I ventured.
Cancers of the cervix uteri are always malignant and cause death if they are not removed before they have gone on to metastasis.
Cancers take on a variety of forms, distinguished by different names; but since they all require substantially the same electrical treatment, it is unnecessary here to describe them.
Do you know, madam, that you'd never hear of so many cancers and tumors, that are dragging weary folks to early graves hereabouts, if this medicine had been used in time?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cancers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
