On the Origin of Cancer*
On the Origin of Cancer*
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DOI:
10.1136/bmj.1.4032.829
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发表时间:
1938-04
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通讯作者:
W. Cramer
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作者:
W. Cramer
Why does a patient get cancer? That is a question which summarizes the problem of cancer and which must have often occurred to you when a patient presents himself or herself, apparently in good health except for some obscure and not necessarily painful symptoms, and on examination a malignant growth is found, sometimes in an early stage but possibly already in an advanced stage, although the patient may have presented himself as soon as he noticed that something was wrong. It is this insidious onset of cancer-striking a patient like a bolt from the blue-which has given the disease the air of a grim mystery.