Uterine cancer in the writings of Byzantine physicians
Karamanou, M.; Tsoucalas, G.; Laios, K.; Deligeoroglou, E.; Agapitos, E.; Androutsos, G.
Journal of BUON Official Journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology 20(6): 1645-1648
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1107-0625 PMID: 26854470 Document Number: 685164
Byzantine physicians recognized uterine cancer as a distinct disease and tried to suggest a therapeutic approach. The work of Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Paul of Aegina, Cleopatra Metrodora and Theophanes Nonnus reflects the Hippocratic-Galenic scientific ideas as well as their own concept on this malignancy. According to their writings uterine cancer was considered an incurable disease and its treatment was based mainly on palliative herbal drugs.