Gynecologic Oncology (1983)Hardcover - 1983, 31 March 1983

Gynecologic Oncology (1983)
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Cancer Treatment and Research
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Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
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Cancer Treatment and Research (Hardcover)
Print Length
389 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
31 Mar 1983
ISBN-10
0898385555
ISBN-13
9780898385557

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At the turn of the century gynecology had achieved independence from surgery in most medical schools; although gynecologists were surgeons, their interests were turning toward nonsurgical aspects of their specialty. In 1900, merely two years after the Curies' discovery, radium was first used as a treatment for carcinoma of the cervix. In that day cervical cancer claimed more women's lives than any other malignancy and was described by Wil- liam P. Graves, the second professor of gynecology at Harvard as follows: 'Cancer of the cervix may rightly be termed of all tumors one of the most deadly and most ghastly. It kills by slow torture, causing in later stages months of agonizing pain and producing a discharge of such a foul and nauseating character as to repel proper medical assistance. Nurses declined to care for these cases, while many public hospitals closed their wards to them as patients. ' In late twentieth century parlance the dramatic results of radium therapy would indeed have been called a 'breakthrough'? and radium techniques, later combined with external irradiation, were devel- oped by gynecologists, no longer just surgeons. Pathology was the basic science of gynecology and gynecologists with a special interest in pathology served as pathologist to the departments of gynecology. As late as 1970 six months of the three-year residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard were devoted to formal training in pathology.

Product Details

Book Edition:
1983
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 March 1983
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 2.39 cm
ISBN-10:
0898385555
ISBN-13:
9780898385557
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
389
Publisher:
Springer
Weight:
743.89 gm

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