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Surgery has been used to manage various disease processes for hundreds of years. Advanced body cavity operations, however, did not become possible until the beginning of the twentieth century, when the discovery of ether anesthesia enabled surgeons to perform prolonged operations, organ extirpations, and reconstructive surgeries. Some of the major accomplishments of the early twentieth century included Billroth’s pioneering of surgical techniques and strategies for the management of gastric cancer and Halsted’s use of radical mastectomy with extensive lymph node dissection for breast cancer [1].
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Sepesi, B., Hofstetter, W. (2016). Advanced Surgical Approaches for the Management of Esophageal Carcinoma. In: Ozyigit, G., Selek, U., Topkan, E. (eds) Principles and Practice of Radiotherapy Techniques in Thoracic Malignancies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28761-4_15
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