Surgical control of uterine cancer based on over 300 cases of Wertheim's extended surgery over a five-year period (1921 to 1925)

The increasing success of radiotherapeutic treatment of uterine cancer both in Russia and abroad involuntarily makes us think that the time is not far off when the problem of cancer in general will be solved, if not the problem of its treatment, and everything that was achieved here by the power of the knife will be relegated to the field of legend, will have only a historical interest. However, the medical world and medical science must preserve the memory of the struggle waged by gynecological surgeons, expending enormous forces of creativity in a gradual approach to the known ideal of operative treatment. That is why, before I proceed with the presentation of my work, I consider it my duty to mention the main points of the surgical treatment of uterine cancer in the department I supervise.