The History of Breast Cancer Early Detection: 1865 – 2020
Frank E Gump, Priyanka Parmar, Sheldon Feldman, Anjuli M Gupta · 2024
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Frank Gump and three co-authors trace the history of breast cancer early detection in this two thousand twenty-four paper. Their story runs from eighteen sixty-five to two thousand twenty. In the late eighteen hundreds, doctors learned that cancer starts from a single focus. Halsted's theory of orderly spread, from breast to nodes to the body, justified both radical surgery and the hope that early treatment saves lives.
Doubts grew as pathologists saw cases that broke the tidy timeline. Bernard Fisher then argued that breast cancer is systemic from the start. Large trials gave his view indirect support. The review follows how these rival ideas shaped screening and surgery. It shows that early detection rests on beliefs about how cancer spreads, not just on machines.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Frank E Gump, Priyanka Parmar, Sheldon Feldman, Anjuli M Gupta |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |