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@MISC{Kreyberg5826early,
author = {L. Kreyberg and D H. Iversen},
title = {26 EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF MALIGNANT CONDITIONS IN LYMPH NODES},
year = {1958}
}
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Abstract
The diagnosis of a malignant condition is always of very serious significance. If the diagnosis is correct, the future life of the patient is troubled and the ultimate fate is dark. But, even if the diagnosis is incorrect, it is accompanied by grave consequences. The patient is stigmatized, he lives in a tense condition full of anxiety, and he is likely to be subject to radical therapeutic steps, to surgery or intensive irradiation, not seldom followed by a more or less marked reduction of his activity and wellbeing. In our days the situation is aggravated by the intensive propaganda for "early diagnosis ", as well as by the therapeutic perfectionism aiming at "cure ". The plea for early diagnosis by its own momentum leads to a diagnosis supported by small deviations from the normal, small in quality and small in quantity. "earlier " the changes, the greater the uncertainty. This problem often is presented:- which are the therapeutic steps to be taken on the basis of uncertain clinical and histological data? In few fields is this uncertainty better felt than when lymphoid tissue is involved.
Keyphrases
early diagnosis intensive irradiation malignant condition serious significance radical therapeutic step intensive propaganda ultimate fate tense condition therapeutic step marked reduction lymphoid tissue therapeutic perfectionism future life small deviation histological data grave consequence
