is.

SURVIVORSHIP OF CANCER CASES IN CONNECTICUT (MICROSCOPICALLY PROVED CASES)

8.08

NO. OF YEARS OF SURVIVA

SOURCE OF DATA: CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH E. J. MACDONALD

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SURVIVORSHIP OF CANCER CASES IN CONNECTICUT (MICROSCOPICALLY PROVED CASES)

SURVIVORSHIP OF CANCER CASES IN CONNECTICUT (MICROSCOPICALLY PROVED CASES)

NO. OF

OF

2 CARS OF SURVIVAL

SOURCE OF DATA: CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT

OF HEALTH - E.J. MACDONALD

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Standardized for age on the 1940 United States population CHART 23.-Percentage of hospitalized cancer patients with localized disease—

Year: 1937 19471

Vermont, 1937 and 1947

Percent with localized disease

20

58

1 In 51 percent of patients with cancer admitted to Vermont hospitals in 1947, therapy was undertaken with curative intent.

Source: American Cancer Society, Vermont Cancer Study, 1948.

CHART 24.-Percentage of breast-cancer patients with axillary metastases; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Year:

1910-191945__.

Source: Dr. S. L. Harrington.

Percent with

axillary disease

63.6

45.0

CHART 25.-5-year survival rate among all patients with operable breast cancer— Memorial Hospital, New York, N. Y.-1936 and 1942

Standardized for age on the 1940 enumerated total population of the United States using white male age-specific death rates.*

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