Stomach cancer historical perspective

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Omer Kamal, M.D.[2] Mohammed Abdelwahed M.D[3]

John Jones was the first to perform a gastric resection in animals. In 1881, Billroth’s first human surgery. In 1897, Schlatter has done the first esophago-enterostomy after gastrectomy. Between 1884 to 1929, Finney’s and Rienhoff were the first to perform partial gastrectomy showing less side effects and less mortality rates.

• Around 1800, Dr. John Jones was the first to perform a gastric resection in animals ^[1]
• In 1881, Billroth’s performed the first human gastric surgery ^[2]
• In 1885, Billroth developed a second resection method. He used anterior gastro-enterostomy that was called Billroth II operation^[3]
• In 1897, Schlatter has done the first esophago-enterostomy after gastrectomy^[4]
• In 1898, a successful gastrectomy was performed on a patient without any complications by Mcdonald.^[5]
• Gastric cancer was the most common cancer in 1990 In 1990^[6]
• Between 1884 to 1929, Finney’s and Rienhoff were the first to perform partial gastrectomy showing fewer side effects and fewer mortality rates^[7]
• In 1940s, Coller, Kay, and McIntyre published a study of all regional lymph nodes^[8]
• Between November 1950 and January 1953, Sunderland et al. studied lymph node metastasis associated with gastric cancer^[9]

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