An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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HANDLEY, William Sampson

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Cancer of the breast and its treatment. 2nd ed.

London: John Murray, 1922.

Sampson Handley advanced the theory that in mammary cancer metastasis is due to extension along lymphatic vessels – “lymphatic permeation” – and not to dissemination byway of the blood stream. The book was first published in 1906.



Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER, SURGERY: General › Diseases of the Breast