A short history of breast cancer

The Third Breast Cancer Working Conference of the Breast Cancer Cooperative Group of the European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer, to be held in Amsterdam on April 27-29, 1983, was the principle motive for writing this book. It was felt that a short review of the main pathogenetic c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: de Moulin, D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Antiquity
  • 2. The Middle Ages
  • 3. The Renaissance
  • 4. Pathophysiological concepts in the Age of Enlightenment
  • 5. Diagnosis and therapy in the eighteenth century
  • 6. Europe during Napoleon and after
  • 7. Scientific developments in the second half of the nineteenth century
  • 8. Mammary carcinoma in the light of new developments
  • 9. Surgical treatment in the second half of the nineteenth century
  • 10. The twentieth century
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index of names