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377 entries match Oncology & Cancer [C04]
1901
#3889
Ein Fall von Tumor der Hypophysis cerebri ohne Akromegalie.
Fröhlich’s classic description of dystrophia adiposogenitalis, pituitary tumor, with obesity and sexual infantilism (“Fröhlich’s syndrome”). Reprinted (in German) in Research Publications, Association for Nervous and …
1901
#5779
The treatment of cancer of the breast by öophorectomy and thyroid extract.
1902
#2625
Die Lehre von den Geschwülsten. 2 vols.
“With this book the microscopical epoch in the evolution of the knowledge of cancer may be said to have been brought to a close” (Haagensen).
1902
#2625.1
Cancroid des rechten Handrückens.
Frieben reported the carcinogenic effect of x-rays in man.
1902
#2626
Die mikroskopische Diagnose der bösartigen Geschwülste. 2te. Aufl.
Hansemann originated the theory of anaplasia.
1902
#3780
On the pathological changes in Hodgkin’s disease, with especial reference to its relation to tuberculosis.
Dorothy Reed’s classic work on Hodgkin’s disease included a study of the histological picture. She described the proliferation of the endothelial and reticular cells, and the formation of lymphadenoma cells – “Dorothy…
1903
#2627
Zur Frage der Beziehungen zwischen Becquerelstrahlen und Hautaffectionen.
Records the first successful employment of radium in the treatment of cancer.
1903
#2627.1
Ueber den Einfluss der Röntgenstrahlen auf epitheliale Gewebe, insbesondere auf das Carcinom.
Perthes was among the first to study the inhibitory effect of x rays on carcinoma; he was a pioneer in radiotherapy.
1903
#2628
Experimentelle Untersuchungen über Krebs bei Mäusen.
Jensen carried rat sarcoma through as many as 40 generations of rodents without change in microscopic structure. His classic study discredited the theory of the infectivity of cancer, and established its inoculability…
1903
#2629
Die Verbreitungswege der Karzinome und die Beziehung generalisierter Sarkome zu den leukämischen Neubildungen.
Schmidt supported the theory of the hematogenous origin of carcinoma metastases.
1903
#7217
Les tumeurs du rein.
Seminal work on renal tumors with unsurpassed descriptions of the clinical semiology of these diseases. In 1903 Albarran was the first "... to diagnose transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis by detecting mali…
1903
#10606
Grundriss der gesammten Radiotherapie fuer praktische Aerzte.
The first textbook on radiation therapy. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1904
#2630
Om Röntgenbehandling af sarkom.
1904 –1905
#2631
Om Röntgenbehandling af maligna svulster.
SeeNo. 2624.
1905
#2632
Die Entstehung des Carcinoms.
Ribbert was the modern protagonist of the theory of the embryonal origin of cancer.
1905
#4266.1
The early diagnosis and radical cure of carcinoma of the prostate. Being a study of 40 cases and presentation of a radical operation which was carried out in four cases.
First radical prostatectomy for carcinoma.
1906
#2005
Interprétation de quelques résultats de la radiothérapie et essai de fixation d’une technique rationelle.
Bergonié-Tribondeau law, “the sensitivity of cells to radiation varies directly with the reproductive capacity of the cells and inversely with their degree of differentiation” (Dorland).
1906 –1907
#4194.1
The treatment of malignant diseases of the bladder through suprapubic incision, with report of a case.
Radiotherapy for carcinoma of bladder.
1907 –1908
#2633
A study of heredity in relation to the development of tumours in mice.
First experimental study of the heredity of mouse cancer.
1907 –1928
#2661.1
Die Lehre von der Krebskrankheit von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart. 4 vols.
Exhaustive and accurate review of all the then-available information on cancer. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. English translation of vol. 1 as The science of cancerous disease from the earliest tim…
1907
#3868
On suprarenal sarcoma in children with metastases in the skull.
Hutchison’s tumors.
1907
#6118
Das Oophoroma folliculare.
“Brenner tumor”, earlier described by Orthmann (No. 6109). See the historical note in Cancer, 1956, 9, 217.
1908
#3079.1
Experimentelle Leukämie bei Hühnern.
Cell-free transmission of fowl leukemia. Ellermann and Bang produced leukemia by means of a filterable agent.
1908
#3080
Per la patogenesi e per la diagnosi delle malattie del sangue e degli organi emopoietici. Puntura esplorativa del midollo osseo.
Introduction of bone marrow biopsy by puncturing the shaft of the tibia.
1908
#3528.1
A method of performing abdomino-perineal excision for carcinoma of the rectum and of the terminal portion of the pelvic colon.
Miles devised the operation of abdomino-perineal resection.
1908
#4144
Un cas de cutis laxa avec tumeurs par contusion chronique des coudes et des genoux.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (see also No. 4132). Danlos noted the subcutaneous tumors that may occur in this condition.
1908
#5781
Les tumeurs du sein.
1908
#6120
Die erweiterte vaginale Totalexstirpation des Uterus bei Kollumkarzinom.
Radical vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma of the cervix.
1909
#2635
The Croonian Lectures on radioactivity and carcinoma.
1909
#3530
Essais de traitement de quelques cas d’épithélioma de l’oesophage par les applications locales directes de radium.
Radium therapy by means of the esophagoscope.
1910
#2636
Cultures de sarcome en dehors de l’organisme.
Using the Rous chicken sarcoma, Carrel and Burrows were the first to grow tumor tissue in vitro.
1910
#2637
A transmissible avian neoplasm (sarcoma of the common fowl).
Original description of the chicken sarcoma (Rous sarcoma). Rous demonstrated that sarcomatous tumors in hens could be transmitted to normal hens by the injection of cell-free filtrates (virus) of the original tumor. …
1910
#3534
Removal of the rectum for cancer: statistical report of 120 cases.
Mayo’s radical operation for carcinoma of the rectum.
1911
#2637.1
Le cancer expérimental.
Experimental production of malignant tumors by means of x rays.
1911
#2638
Zur Diagnose des Karzinoms.
A serum reaction, employed by Freund and Kaminer in 1910 for the diagnosis of cancer.
1911
#3319.1
On certain clinically obscure malignant tumours of the naso-pharyngeal wall.
“Trotter’s syndrome”; deafness, palatal paralysis, and facial neuralgia, usually due to a nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
1912
#2639
Epithelial proliferation induced by the injection of gasworks tar.
Experimental production of cancer by the injection of tar as a byproduct of the manufacture of coal gas.
1912
#3192
Primary malignant growths of the lungs and bronchi.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1912
#4148
Precancerous dermatosis. A study of two cases of chronic atypical epithelial proliferation.
Bowen, a Boston dermatologist, first described a precancerous dermatosis (“Bowen’s disease”), which is now considered to be a variant of an intra-epidermal basal cell epithelioma.
1913
#2640
Untersuchungen über eine Nematode (Spiroptera sp. n.) und deren Fähigkeit papillomatöse und carcinomatose Geschwulstbildungen im Magen der Ratte hervorzurufen.
Fibiger demonstrated that the roundworm, which he called Spiroptera carcinoma (but is correctly named Gongylonema neoplasticum), could cause stomach cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) in rats and mice. His experimental …
1913
#3082.1
Ueber eine neue Leukämie durch echte Uebergangsformen (Splenozytenleukämie) und ihre Bedeutung für die Selbständigkeit dieser Zellen.
Monocytic leukemia reported.
1913
#3540
The first successful case of resection of the thoracic portion of the oesophagus for carcinoma.
See also Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1925, 10, 353-60, which reported that the patient was still living.
1913
#9443
Heredity with reference to carcinoma: As shown by the study of the cases examined in the pathological laboratory of the University of Michigan, 1895-1913.
"In 1895, a young seamstress of his [Warthin's] acquaintance told him about her family's long history of cancer deaths.[6] Intrigued, he researched her family's history, searching death records and administering quest…
1913
#13264
Beiträge zur Pathologie und Klinik der Mammacarcinome.
In a study of 3,000 mastectomies, Salomon compared X-rays of the beasts (mammograms) to the actual removed tissue, paying close attention to microcalcifications. In doing so he was able to establish the difference in …
1914
#7759
Zur Frage der Entstehung maligner Tumoren.
Boveri argued that malignancy arises as a consequence of chromosomal abnormalities, and that multiplication is an inherent property of cells. He predicted the existence of tumor suppressor mechanisms and was perhaps t…
1915
#2641
The mortality from cancer throughout the world.
1916
#2642
Further investigations on the origin of tumours in mice. III. On the part played by internal secretion in the spontaneous development of tumours.
Demonstration of the influence of an internal secretion on the development of spontaneous cancer. Castration of female mice of a strain in which mammary cancer was frequent reduced its incidence and delayed its growth.
1916
#2643
Ueber die künstliche Erzeugung von Karzinom.
First experimental production of tar cancer in rabbits by painting with tar products. This was the first proof of chemical carcinogenesis.
1916
#2570
Further experimental studies on the inheritance of susceptibility to a transplantable tumour, carcinoma (J. W. A.) of the Japanese waltzing mouse.
Marks the beginning of the study of histocompatibility antigens.
1917
#4601
Tumors of the nervus acusticus and the syndrome of the cerebello-pontile angle.
Reprinted 1963.