Cancer Milestones in Treatment

'Cancer is one of the major afflictions of developed societies. The fact that causation is multifactional and involves both very ancient and more recent evolutionary legacies, implies that there is no easy answers' said Professor Mel Greaves, in his book Cancer, the evolutionary legacy. The Professor continued 'But we will have new options to consider in terms of early diagnosis, biological therapy, and especially prevention".
In milestones of Cancer treatment, we see the treatment of this desease built upon successes of the past. Progress made in the past century has cleared a path for continued achievement.
At random, we will select significant dates of time that records these achievement in Cancer treatment.

1882.

The first mastectomy for Breast Cancer is performed

1897
Paul Ehrlich develops the side-chain theory, the root of his targeted therapy, or "magic bullet" concept of drugs that go straight to their intended targets to treat disease. He later wins the Nobel Prize, 1908

1900
Thor Stenbeck cures a patient with skin cancer using small doses of daily radiation therapy. This technique is later referred to as fractionated radiation therapy, which is the basis of radiation treatment used today.

During this decade, George Papanicolaou found that vaginal cell smears (the Pape smear) reveal the presence of Cancer

This series of Cancer milestones to be continued. Acknowledgement curetoday.com Geoff.

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