Events
Hippocrates describes first melanoma; "melas" + "oma"John Hunter removes the first melanoma, describing it as an “cancerous fungous excrescence.”Rene Laenec first distinguished melanoma as a separate diseaseWilliam Norris first described the heterogeneous nature of melanoma tumors and recommended WIDE EXCISIONSir Robert Carswell introduced the term "melanoma"Herbert Lumley Snow started suggesting lymphadenectomy as "traps" for travelling cancerUp to here, mainstay of treatment was wide excision, 5cm of normal skin and all subcutaneous material. Research into immune systems role underway.Wallace Clark classified melanoma into three types and correlated depth of invasion inversely with prognosisBreslow develops a scale of thickness and correlation to prognosisMorton and colleagues begin using lymphoscintigraphy to resect relevant lymph node bedsChemotherapy is being used to alternatively treat melanomaImmunotherapy (IL-2) begins to be used to treat melanoma
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