Neurosurgical Procedures in the Treatment of Neoplastic Disease

Abstract

WITH increasing use of new and more radical procedures for surgical palliation, with the increasing effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in delaying, if not eliminating, the terminal onslaught of cancer, and with diminished frequency of intercurrent infection as a cause of death in patients with cancer, a steady increase in the number of patients living for longer and longer intervals with malignant neoplasms has resulted. This fact places new responsibility on physicians to treat with energy and imagination the pain and suffering that so often accompany inoperable cancer. Every physician must remember, in his enthusiasm to discover the cause and . . .