Treatment

Beyond attention to the general health, there need be little expected from internal treatment, although there are undoubted cases of sarcoma on record in which the homoeopathic remedy exerted a favourable influence and apparently effected a cure.

In small and young single sarcomata mechanical removal should be effected just as soon as a diagnosis is established, care being taken to remove a considerable portion of the apparently healthy skin, as the location of the tumor will permit. Special provision should be made against haemorrhage, which, from the large number and size of vessels entering the tumor, may be excessive. In very large sarcomata, in which an ultimate fatal termination is to be anticipated, removal is hardly to be recommended, except as a palliative measure, looking only to temporary relief. In these cases removal by means of a loop of platinum wire heated by electricity is to be preferred to the knife on the score of safety from haemorrhage.