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Two former U.S. presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and Grover Cleveland, were diagnosed with head and neck cancer in 1884 and 1893, respectively. A historical review of the risk factors, diagnoses, and treatments is examined and compared with modern-day interpretations. A comparison was made using the original diagnoses with today's equivalent diagnosis. Different treatment outcomes at the time of the original diagnoses relative to today's treatment are reviewed. Clinicians must be familiar with risk factors, signs, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of head and neck cancer.
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Famous Persons , Federal Government/history , Head and Neck Neoplasms/history , Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/history , Carcinoma, Verrucous/history , History, 19th Century , Humans , Male , Maxillary Neoplasms/history , Tongue Neoplasms/history , United StatesABSTRACT
In this article we present the conceptions of the 19th century physicians for the epithelial cancers. The studies carried out by Professor Simon Emmanuel Duplay and his contemporaries on cancer in the mid-19th century are interesting and promoted cancer research in the clinical, epidemiological, therapeutical and experimental fields.
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Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial/history , France , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial/pathology , Tongue Neoplasms/history , Tongue Neoplasms/pathologySubject(s)
Famous Persons , Keratitis/history , Literature, Modern/history , Medicine in Literature , Tongue Neoplasms/history , History, 19th Century , Humans , Hypnosis/history , Keratitis/complications , Physician-Patient Relations , Tongue Neoplasms/complications , Tongue Neoplasms/radiotherapy , United KingdomABSTRACT
The Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh died of an advanced cancer of the tongue at the age of 60 in 1928. He was treated by radium which was a controversial method at that time. There is good evidence that he was well palliated, and was able to live a fairly normal life for over a year. In recent years there has been an increase in interest in Mackintosh's life and work, but an examination of the literature of the 1920s shows that despite advances in treatment methods over the past 60 years, this has not been matched by an improvement in survival rates for cancer of the tongue. In this unpleasant tumour which history has shown to be particularly resistant to attempts at cure it is important that quality of life is fully considered.
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Architecture , Famous Persons , Tongue Neoplasms/history , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , Scotland , Tongue Neoplasms/radiotherapySubject(s)
Famous Persons , Tongue Neoplasms/history , History, 19th Century , Humans , Male , Smoking/history , Tongue Neoplasms/etiology , United StatesABSTRACT
A historical review is followed by a case report concerning a 58-year-old man cured of a pelvilingual carcinoma at the price of severe mutilation in whom it was possible, with the aid of cutaneo-cylindircal grafts, to close a buccocervical fistula and to anatomically reconstruct the tongue. This rare case proves that after treatment for carcinoma, stomatological plastic surgery is possible when cure is certain and the patient's general condition good.
