Contribution to the Statistics of Cancer
William Baker · Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 1862
THE contribution to the statistics of cancer here presented to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society has been col- lected from notes of 500 of the cases taken by Mr. Paget be- tween the years 1843 and 1861.The conclusions to be drawn from them may be added to, or incorporated with, those made by Mr. Sibley, and published in the ' Transactions,' vol.xlii.The number of cases is nearly the same as that from which his tables were constructed; and they are tabulated on the same general plan.Such additions as they may make to the facts which he has deduced, or such differences of conclusion as they may suggest, may be ascribed to their having been observed in an entirely different field, and, for the most part, in private practice.The cases were recorded by Mr. Paget as they occurred, and without any reference to the particular kind of cancer, its seat, or its influence on the duration of life; none were either selected or omitted for any special reason.But in the 500 cases for which these tables are constructed only such cancers have been included as were external or might be called surgical, the so-called medical cases being omitted.Cases of cancer of the larynx, cesophagus, rectum, and bladder are included, but not those of the uterus, the cases all the organs), the duration of life followss: Age. 0to 30 years 30 ,,50 ,, 50 ,, 90 ,, at each age was as Average length of life.19 0 months. .34.7 is .32'1 ,, Amongst those operated on:Age.