TY - JOUR
AU - Graham, Ruth M.
AB - 
"Only the beginnings of cancer permit a cure," said Celsus in 25 A.D. In a consideration of carcinoma of the cervix, physicians must ask themselves whether present therapy is effective, whether women who are discovered to have this disease today can hope to live 10 years, whether a greater proportion of the 16,000 comparatively young women dying in this country every year of cervical cancer can be saved, whether the detection of carcinoma in situ is the key to greater salvage, and whether carcinoma in situ is an early manifestation of cancer or a reversible noncancerous lesion. At present earlier diagnosis is our only means of reducing the mortality from this disease. Jones1 writes, "Stage I cancer of the cervix... can be cured in 80% of all patients and international Stage O cancer in approximately 100%; yet the general survival rate from carcinoma of the cervix is in the

TI - SCREENING FOR CERVICAL CANCER IN INTERNIST'S OFFICE BY ROUTINE VAGINAL SMEARS
JF - JAMA
DO - 10.1001/jama.1952.63680060006016
DA - 1952-10-11
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/screening-for-cervical-cancer-in-internist-s-office-by-routine-vaginal-dwvDG80QMi
SP - 587
EP - 590
VL - 150
IS - 6
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