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Historical Survey of Methods of Treatment of Skin Cancer

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Skin Cancer

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We are forever intrigued by physicians who are incapable of seeing that there is more than one way to treat a patient with skin cancer. The record of the literature on the treatment of skin cancer is full of enthusiasts for one particular mode of therapy. We thought it might be illuminating to do a historical survey of the methods of treatment of skin cancer. Lesions of the semimucosae and mucosae are not included.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1865

History is bunk

Henry Ford, 1863–1947

It is probable that every skin cancer could be cured at one time by the application of the end of a freshly extinguished wooden match

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Jackson, R., Laughlin, S. (1988). Historical Survey of Methods of Treatment of Skin Cancer. In: Skin Cancer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3790-7_18

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