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377 entries match Oncology & Cancer [C04]
1846
#2612.1
The nature and treatment of cancer.
The earliest account of the recognition of fragments of malignant tissue. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1846
#3062.1
Particulars of a case in which enormous enlargement of the spleen and liver, together with dilatation of all the blood vessels of the body, were found coincident with a peculiarly altered condition of the blood.
Leukemia diagnosed during life as the result of a blood examination.
1846
#4325.1
On the microscopical character of mollifies ossium.
Report of the histological examination of bone material containing multiple myeloma from the patient described by Macintyre (No. 4327).
1847
#2613
Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des Krebses.
While still a young man Virchow founded the above journal. He wrote a fine paper on cancer and suggested that the exciting cause is local irritation.
1850
#4327
Case of mollities and fragilitas ossium.
Multiple myeloma first described.
1851
#2614
Transplantation of malignant tumors.
First experimental transplantation of tumors.
1851
#4260
The anatomy and diseases of the prostate gland.
Adams was the first to distinguish between hypertrophy and carcinoma of the prostate. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1851
#6965
Traité pratique des maladies cancéreuses et des affections curables confondues avec le cancer.
Lebert studied cancer cells under high magnification to discover the specific elements distinguishing them from normal cells. He classified tumors as either homeomorphous (composed of elements analogous to those of th…
1852
#2615
Om epithelioma, en særegen Svulst, som man hidtil i Almindelighed har anseet for Kræft.
Hannover coined the word “epithelioma.” He did not recognize its malignant character but maintained that metastases were produced by cancer cells arriving by way of the blood stream. Translated into German as Das Epit…
1852
#3262
The surgical treatment of polypi of the larynx and oedema of the glottis.
Green was one of the few to remove a laryngeal tumor before the invention of the laryngoscope.
1853
#3263
On the surgical treatment of morbid growths within the larynx, illustrated by an original case and statistical observations, elucidating their nature and forms.
Thyrotomy for removal of cancer of the larynx. The operation took place in May 1851, and the patient died in 1852.
1854
#5875
Die pyämische Ophthalmie in Beziehung zur feinsten Organisation des Entzündungs-Produkts und zu der eigenthümlichen Struktur des Glaskörpers.
First account of metastatic ophthalmia.
1856
#3064
Ueber farblose Blutkörperchen und Leukämie. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin, pp. 147-218.
Includes his paper on “weisses Blut” (see No. 3062) and three later papers on leukemia. See No. 3006.
1856
#3764
Cases of a peculiar enlargement of the lymphatic glands frequently associated with disease of the spleen.
Wilks really put Hodgkin’s disease “on the map”; the second paper for the first time attached Hodgkin’s name to the disease
1857
#3064.1
Ein neuer Fall von Leukämie.
Acute leukemia first described.
1857
#3456
De polypis oesophagi atque de tumore ejus generis primo prospere exstirpato.
First operation for tumor of the esophagus.
1857
#13248
Untersuchungen uber die Entwickelung des Schädelgrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande und über Einfluss derselben auf Schädelform, Gesichtsbildung und Gehirnbau.
In his Investigations on the development of the base of the skull in healthy and diseased conditions, and on the influence of the same upon skull form, facial structure and brain formation Virchow laid the foundation …
1858
#6045
Der Gebärmutterkrebs.
In this work Wagner presented the first important contribution to the knowledge of the gross pathology of uterine cancer.
1860
#2616
Clinical memoirs on abdominal tumours and intumescence.
1863 –1867
#2617
Die krankhaften Geschwülste. Vol. 1-3, Heft 1.
Although tumours were perhaps his greatest interest, Virchow never completed this work which was intended to have 30 lectures. Instead he stopped with the 25th lecture, on carcinoma, probably because of the vigorous a…
1863
#6052
Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.
First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.
1865
#2618
Der Epithelialkrebs namentlich der Haut. 1 vol. and atlas.
Thiersch, Professor of Surgery at Erlangen, and inventor of the method of skin grafting which bears his name, also made an important contribution to the knowledge of the histogenesis of cancer. He disproved Virchow’s …
1865
#3272
Case of cancer of the larynx, successfully removed by laryngotomy.
Laryngectomy for papillomata.
1865
#6053
Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.
1867
#1996.3
On the electrolytic treatment of tumors, and other surgical diseases.
Althaus introduced Duchenne’s methods into England. He was the first to employ electrolysis for medical purposes. Greatly expanded third edition, 1873.
1867
#2619
On the influence of inadequate operations on the theory of cancer.
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 sus…
1867
#2620
Die Entwicklung der Carcinome.
Waldeyer confirmed the work of Thiersch (No. 2618) on the epithelial origin of cancer, disproving Virchow’s theory (No. 2617). So great was the authority of the latter that it was not until the appearance of the secon…
1867
#3274
Removal of a fibrous polyp from the inferior anterior surface of the right vocal cord with the aid of the laryngoscope.
First successful operation for cancer of the larynx.
1870
#3066
Ein Fall von Leukämie mit Erkrankung des Knochenmarkes.
Neumann was the first to note changes in the bone marrow in leukemia, and he proposed the term “myelogenous leukemia”.
1872
#3767
Das maligne Lymphosarkom (Pseudoleukämie).
Langhans noted the presence of giant cells in the lesions of Hodgkin’s disease.
1872
#4063
Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut.
First description of “Kaposi’s sarcoma” – multiple idiopathic hemorrhagic sarcoma. English translation in CA, 1982, 32, 342-47.
1874
#3282
Ueber die erste durch Th. Billroth am Menschen ausgeführte Kehlkopf-Exstirpation und die Anwendung eines künstlichen Kehlkopfes.
The first complete excision of the larynx for cancer, performed by Billroth on 31 December 1873 and reported by Gussenbauer. The patient left the hospital in good state on 3 March 1874. Also published in Arch. klin. C…
1874
#5772
On disease of the mammary areola preceding cancer of the mammary gland.
First description of “Paget’s disease of the nipple” –eczema of the nipple with cancer. The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 75-78. Paget was Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria, and a great surgical patho…
1875
#4499.1
Rhumatisme articulaire subaigu avec production de tumeurs multiples dans les tissus fibreux périarticulaires et sur le périoste d’un grand nombre d’os.
Meynet was the first to draw special attention to the subcutaneous fibroid nodules in rheumatism.
1875
#2126
Beiträge zur Chirurgie, anschliessend an einen Bericht über die Thätigkeit der chirurgischen Universitäts-Klinik zu Halle im Jahre 1873.
Contains (pp. 370-81) first description of industrial tar and paraffin cancer.
1875
#10451
The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales. Illustrated by six small and three large coloured maps.
Haviland used the national mortality statistics for England and Wales to develop an elaborate geographical explanation based on map analysis for the cause of heart, cancer, and tuberculosis deaths. He found that femal…
1876
#2620.1
O privivanii rakovikh novoobrazovanii. [On the inoculation of cancerous neoplasms.]
Novinsky successfully transplanted two tumors in dogs. German translation in Zbl. med. Wiss., 1876, 14, 790-91. A fuller report appeared in his thesis K voprosu o privivanii zlokachestvennich novoobrazovanii (eksperim…
1876
#11161
Du cancer chez les enfants.
Duzan's thesis was the first treatise exclusively on cancer in childhood. He was able to collect 182 cases. All 182 cases were of pediatric sarcoma: 70 of the eye, 45 of the kidney, 11 of the testicle, 8 of the prosta…
1877
#6066.1
Uber drei Fälle von primärem Carcinom im Fundus und Corpus des Uterus.
Choriocarcinoma first reported.
1878
#3768
Specimens illustrative of the pathology of lymphadenoma and leucocythemia
Greenfield also drew attention to the giant cells in lymphadenoma, which later became known as “Dorothy Reed’s giant cells” (see No. 3780).
1878
#6070
Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.
Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…
1879
#3472
De l’ablation des tumeurs de l’estomac par la gastrectomie.
First gastrectomy for carcinoma; unsuccessful.
1879
#4346
Sarcoma of the long bones; based upon a study of one hundred and sixty-five cases.
First comprehensive work on bone sarcoma.
1880
#3473
Ueber Radicalheilung des Krebses.
Kocher’s operation of radical extirpation of the tongue for carcinoma.
1880
#3473.1
Wyçiecie raka odźwiernika zoladkowego, śmierćw 12 godzinach.
First extirpation of carcinomatous pylorus. Death after 12 hours. German translation in Dtsch. Z. Chir., 1881, 14, 252-60.
1880
#5773
Die Krankheiten der Brustdrüsen.
A monograph on cancer and other diseases of the breast, including a discussion of cancer in the male breast in the final chapter. This work is also significant in the history of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Dig…
1881
#3288
Clinical remarks on the proclivity of the abductor fibres of the recurrent laryngeal nerve to become affected sooner than the adductor fibres, or even exclusively, in cases of undoubted central or peripheral injury or disease of the roots or trunks of the pneumogastric, spinal accessory, or recurrent nerves.
“Semon’s law”. Of German birth, Semon became one of the greatest laryngologists in Britain. He developed the modern operation of laryngofissure for early cancer of the larynx.
1881
#4079
Di un caso di encondroma et angioma multiplo. Contribuzione alla genesi embrionale dei tumori.
“Maffucci’s syndrome” – cavernous hemangioma with enchondromas of skeleton, producing deformities.
1881
#3474
Offenes Schreiben an Herrn Dr. L. Wittelshöfer.
First successful resection of the pylorus for cancer, the Billroth I operation.
1881
#6074