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Surgeon

William Stewart Halsted

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Surgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hospital whose 1894 Annals of Surgery paper reported results of operations for breast cancer performed there between June 1889 and January 1894. The operation he described, the radical mastectomy, removed the breast, the pectoral muscles and the axillary lymph nodes, and was the standard surgical treatment for breast cancer until the late twentieth century according to historical reviews.

Milestones

Sources

  1. Halsted WS. I. The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast Performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894. Ann Surg. 1894;20(5):497-555.

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  2. Ghossain A, Ghossain MA. History of mastectomy before and after Halsted. J Med Liban. 2009;57(2):65-71.

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  3. Marquez JM. William Halsted's Radical Mastectomy Patients: A Historical Analysis Through Patient Narratives. Ann Surg Open. 2026;7(1):e651.

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