Observations on Cancer of the Colon and Rectum in Connecticut

Abstract

THE Connecticut Tumor Registry has now been functioning for nineteen years. It is operated by the Division of Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases of the State Department of Health, in co-operation with the Connecticut State Medical Society, and 28 general hospitals, representing 93 per cent of all the general-hospital beds of the State. Observations based on a study of accumulated data reflect the work of several hundred surgeons in both small and large communities. Thus, an opportunity is afforded to obtain more accurate information about the general picture of cancer than is revealed by reports from single institutions.During the . . .