Word: fibroid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stomach; second the uterus; third the breast.) The lung type has often been mistaken for tuberculosis or other diseases. The mistake is excusable, for the symptoms of cancer, which may be nodular, infiltrating and diffuse or miliary, resemble in some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem to be: pain, dyspnea, cough, weakness, loss of weight, cachexia, fever, anorexia. Before deciding that...