Is cancer of the stomach curable?

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Cancer of Stomach

Q. Is cancer of the stomach curable?

A. Nearly forty years ago, Professor Bill­ broth, the famous Austrian surgeon of Vienna, devised an operation for removal of a portion of the stomach in cases of cancer of this organ. The operation was at first unsuccessful but as a re­sult of later improvements this operation may now be performed very safely, and when the cancer is still confined to the stomach there is an excellent prospect that the disease will not re­turn; but even if it does return the patient's life may by this operation be very greatly prolonged, the patient being given a number of years of comfortable and useful life even though at the time of the operation the condition was so grave that death must have occurred within a few weeks at the longest.

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