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GLANDULATl CARCINOMATAR. 



nitj, the telengiectatic form of glandular cancer agrees uncon- 

 ditionally with the soft variety. 



§ 157. The sarcomatous carcinoma represents the second 

 possible combination of cancer with sarcoma (cf. sarcoma carci- 

 nomatodes, § 125). If we imagine the epithelium of an open 

 gland undergoing a degeneration precisely similar to that which 

 ^ives rise to the soft form of glandular cancer, while the inter- 



FiG. 60. 



Stroma of a telengiectatic cancer of the testicle, consisting of 

 wide capillaries with coecal appendages. ~^. 



stitial connective tissue simultaneously undergoes a sarcomatous 

 degeneration, we get a compound tumour, whose place we are at 

 first puzzled to define, uncertain whether to class it with sarco- 

 mata or cancers. I place it among the cancers, inasmuch as the 

 sarcomatous element is restricted to the primary growth ; when 

 it recurs after extirpation, or forms metastatic deposits, it usually 

 presents the uncomplicated features of soft glandular cancer. Its 

 seats of election are undoubtedly the testicle and the kidney. I 

 venture to assert that most soft cancers of the testicle hare a 



