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Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

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Page 1: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

Frederic

MohsInventor of cancer technique

Born March 1, 1910Died July 2, 2002

Page 2: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

• Frederic Mohs was a surgeon at the University of Wisconsin who invented a surgical technique for treating certain skin caners• Mohs surgery was also known

as Chemosurgery which allows the physician to map and remove not just the visible parts of the skin cancer but also its cancerous roots.

Page 3: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

• The initial technique usually employed a paste containing zinc to destroy cancerous tissue layer by layer under delicate microscopic control.

• Mohs surgery allows the surgeon to root out the cancer completely while sparing the greatest possible amount of healthy tissue to little the scarring.

Page 4: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

• In 1985 president Ronald Reagan had skin cancer removed from his nose using Mohs method.•This treatment can cure a rate up to 99 percent for certain skin cancers.

Page 5: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

•Mohs surgery is usally used to treat only what are called accessible cancers that appear on the outside of the body and has not been overly used against those developing on internal organs.

Page 6: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

About Frederic Mohs Life

• Frederic Mohs was born on March 1, 1910 in Burlington. • His father died when he was only

three months old.• He family moved to Madison

where his mother ran a boarding house

Page 7: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

College life

• He first wanted to become a radio engineer he swished to medical studies.• Dr.Mohs began developing his

treatment in the1930s experimenting on rats and other animals.

Page 8: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

• The breakthrough came when he discovered that treating cancerous and surroundings eat tissue with zinc chloride allowed it to remove surgically and examined under a microscope.• He treated the first human on June

23, 1936

Page 9: Frederic Mohs Inventor of cancer technique Born March 1, 1910 Died July 2, 2002

• He spent his working life at the university of Wisconsin.

• Was tireless advocate for the surgical procedure he had devised and taught it to doctors from all over the world