Popular palliative cancer treatments in 18th--mid 19th century

Androutsos, G.; Koutsilieris, M.; Protogerou, A.; Laios, K.; Karamanou, M.

Journal of BUON Official Journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology 21(2): 523-527

2016


ISSN/ISBN: 1107-0625
PMID: 27273971
Document Number: 690973
In the 18th century cancer was an incurable disease and the only therapeutic approach was surgery which was accompanied with several life threatening complications. In the absence of effective cancer treatment, palliative approach was proposed by physicians. Compression, ligation, "cura famis" and treatment by cold were four popular treatments in the 18th century provoking an outbreak of therapeutic illusions in cancer patients and physicians, before being lost in oblivion.

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