Quantitation of transplacental haemorrhage.

III and IV M 551 6 3 F 285 12 7 F 74 14 11One of the most interesting and important aspects of cancer of the tongue is its extra- ordinarily high mortality rate.It is to say the least unfortunate that a leading journal should publish such misleading and overoptimistic figures.For those who are puzzled why, quite apart from sample sizes, the survival rates achieved by Feind and Cole' are so widely different from the British figures it should be pointed out that part of the explanation is that this study upon which your expert depended does not in fact refer to carcinoma of the tongue.-I am, etc.,