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CA Cancer J Clin 1954; 4:123-125
doi: 10.3322/canjclin.4.4.123
© 1954 American Cancer Society
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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 4, 123-125, Copyright © 1954 by American Cancer Society

Cancer Detection in the Physician's Office

A County Medical Society Reports a Successful Pilot Experiment

Ian Macdonald M.D.1 and L. Henry Garland M.D.1

1 The Cancer Commission, California Medical Association, 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco 8, California.

Cancer-detection examinations by phycisicians in their private offices were performed as a county medical society project for a period of one year.

In a series of 6765 patients examined, 612 were found to have lesions clinically suspect for tumor. The total number of proved cancers discovered was 280 and the number of lesions classified as precancerous was eighty-seven.

This yield of neoplasms discovered compares favorably with reports from special cancer-detection centers.

The Cancer Commission believes that periodic health examinations in the offices of private physicians of persons beyond the age of 40 is a practical approach to the problem of earlier detection of tumors at accessible sites—the tumors that are the most readily curable by current surgical and radiotherapeutic techniques.






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