The oncologic surgery of Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu in the 15th century

Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu (AD 1385-1468) was the author of the first illustrated surgical textbook in the Turkish-Islamic literature, Cerrahiyyet'ul-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), written in old Turkish in 1465. Cerrahiyyet'ul-Haniyye, consists of three chapters and 193 sections which include coloured miniatures of surgical procedures, incisions, and instruments, for a variety of surgical specialties, including oncology. Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu was a surgeon, medical teacher, deontologist and a miniature artist who should be remembered as a contributor to the modern medical practice six centuries later.