Radical amputation of the left breast (1930)

Full title is "...for duct carcinoma". A film showing the mastectomy of a breast to treat breast cancer. Find out more: http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/record=b1669663~S3

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Education

Tags:

• Neoplasms.
• General
• Surgery.
• Breast
• Neoplasms
• --
• surgery.
• Lymph
• Nodes

[astua]

i thought surgeons had to be gentle. im more gentle when gutting a deer

[JessiebelleTX]

Think about it. This was 80 years ago. There have been amazing advances in medical technology and knowledge, but one critical thing in this era would've been speed and preventing an excessive loss of blood. I'm told my great grandmother had this done, possibly even before 1930 (she was in her 40s) and lived to her 80s. So the success rate was probably decent if the cancer had not spread or metastasized. It seems violent, but lengthy anesthesiology was not as safe as it is today, either, I think.

[BadGirlOfAutism]

How much would this have cost a patient (equivalent of today's money) back then? As I understand it the NHS wasn't in existence in the 1930s and thus people had to pay for all medical treatment.

[SpeakerSett]

They moved on from cleaning corpses to delivering babies (which caused puerperal fever) to operations. Oh my gosh

[HaiLsKuNkY]

at the time they didn't know much about bacteria and use to wash the bandage and reuse them.

[Pedy1968]

Awww what a brutal operation in this time...i hope she had survived it.Thank you for this intersting video!

[edwardschlosser1]

Treatment of breast cancer hasn't really changed as much as you think. Most breast cancers appear in the upper outer quandrant. Surgical removal is still the most effective treatment we have. I have a friend who resently died at the age of 46 from breast cancer whose grandmother was diagnosed and treated with this very procedure in the 1930's. She lived into her 80's. Pre-menapausal, non-estrogen sensitve breast cancers should never be treated with a lumpectomy. A modified radical.........

[krstnlhjt]

@astua remember, this was a long time ago. And, the patient was not awake. Over time, radical surgery has improved, but u jus thave to keep in mind the time of this video

[Iruth27]

@ApertureMiku Yeah, I eventually figured that out, thanks though for the answer.

[ApertureMiku]

@Iruth27 thats medical

[farenht456]

holy shit

[Iruth27]

I wonder why youtube hasn't banned this video