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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 17, 165-172, Copyright © 1967 by American Cancer Society

Every Doctor's Office—A Cancer Detection Center?

¹ Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
² Associate Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.

In a survey of 380 physicians— representing 95% of those practicing in a district of a large metropolitan area— it was found that the cancer detection procedures were much better than anticipated. However, the data indicates that the practice of teaching breast self-examination and of doing proctoscopy examinations on asymptomatic patients, needs further emphasis. Results showed that 28% of physicians were not teaching self-examination of the breast to their patients; of those physicians doing proctoscopies more than half did not do them routinely.