Cancer Treatment Surgery

Surgery
For many centuries, surgery was the only treatment for cancer. The famous 18th century surgeon, John Hunter, suggested that surgery might cure cancer if the tumour had not invaded the surrounding tissue. He remarked that "if the tumour is moveable... there is no impropriety in removing it".
But early surgery was a risky procedure. Pain, infection and haemorrhage limited its usefulness and success until anaesthetics were discovered in the 1840s. In 1846, John Collins Warren performed what is thought to be the first major cancer operation under general anaesthesia - the removal of a patient's cancerous salivary glands.

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