The Surgery of Advanced Pelvic Cancer in Women

Abstract

IT has been established that removal of all the pelvic viscera can be accomplished with a mortality of 25 per cent or less and that the resultant physiologic readjustments permit a comfortable and active life.¹ The ultimate appraisal will be made in terms of patients who survive for years in good health and without disease. In the interim, however, lessons will be learned and modifications will be introduced if groups of such patients are carefully evaluated from time to time. This paper reports the facts and discusses the conclusions reached from the study of a series of 46 patients on . . .