Sarcomas of the Small Intestine and Reference to Their Radiosensitivity

One dealing with oncology is impressed by the marked infrequence of tumors of the small intestine. Among 986 tumors of the gastro-intestinal tract, Raiford (1) found only 88 (9 per cent) in the small intestine, 14 of which were in the jejunum. Heimann (2) found only 20 malignant neoplasms of the small intestine in 7,005 cases of cancer of the alimentary tract, excluding the mouth. Gidro (3), in his recent paper, reviewed the necropsy records of several Austrian, German, and Hungarian hospitals and found 47 cases of sarcoma of the intestine among 73,524 necropsies, of which 65 per cent were located in the small intestine. Feldman (4) collected 58 cases of sarcoma of the small intestine from 104,621 necropsy reports of five authors. Only eight tumors of the small intestine were found in our 2,252 necropsies and 20,603 surgical specimens, while 75 neoplasms of the stomach and 108 neoplasms of the colon, including the cecum and rectum, were reported. The classification of these eight small-intestinal neoplasm...