An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”
15933 entries, 13900 authors and 1933 subjects. Updated: October 2, 2023
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On the influence of inadequate operations on the theory of cancer.Med.-chir. Trans. 50, 245-80, 1867.Modern surgical treatment of cancer is based upon principles laid down by Moore. For cancer of the breast he showed that recurrence was not due to the development of an entirely new tumor because of constitutional susceptibility, as was then generally theorized, but to incomplete removal of the original tumor. He insisted that the entire breast be carefully removed in every case of breast cancer. Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER Permalink: historyofmedicine.com/id/3136 |