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First Detection - 1500 BC
website The world's oldest documented case of cancer hails from ancient Egypt, in 1500 b.c. The details were recorded on a papyrus, documenting 8 cases of tumors occurring on the breast. It was treated by cauterization, a method to destroy tissue with a hot instrument called "the fire drill. -
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Surgery 12000 BC
Surgery Evidence has been found in prehistoric human remains from Proto-Neolithic and Neolithic times, in cave paintings, and the procedure continued in use well into recorded history Out of 120 prehistoric skulls found at one burial site in France dated to 6500 BCE, 40 had trepanation holes. Folke Henschen, a Swedish doctor and historian, asserts that Soviet excavations of the banks of the Dnieper River in the 1970s show -
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Interesting fact #3- 1400 BC
46 interesting facts The word “cancer” is related to the Greek word “crab” because its finger-like projections were similar to the shape of the crab. Galen, a Roman physician, used the word oncos, which is Greek for “swelling." -
Radiation therapy
Wikipedia Radiation therapy Medicine has used radiation therapy as a treatment for cancer for more than 100 years, with its earliest roots traced from the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen. Emil Grubbe of Chicago was possibly the first American physician to use x-rays to treat cancer, beginning in 1896. -
Chemotherapy
website The first chemotherapy drug to be developed from this line of research was mustine. Since then, many other drugs have been developed to treat cancer, and drug development has exploded into a multibillion-dollar industry, although the principles and limitations of chemotherapy discovered by the early researchers still apply. -
Major Breakthrough in Cancer Research
Major Breakthrough in Cancer ResearchIn 1947, while conducting research at the Institute, Professor David Galton became the first physician in the world to use aminopterin in the treatment of adult leukaemia, producing remission in some cancer patients. Haddow established a Clinical Chemotherapy Research Unit in partnership with the Royal Marsden Hospital.The unit led to the Institute's discovery of three successful chemotherapy drugs: busulphan (Myleran), chlorambucil (Leukeran) and melphalan (Alkeran).[3] -
Transplantation
stem cell transplantation Georges Mathé, a French oncologist, performed the first European bone marrow transplant in 1959 on five Yugoslavian nuclear workers whose own marrow had been damaged by irradiation. Stem cell transplantation was pioneered using bone-marrow-derived stem cells by a team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from the 1950s through the 1970s led by E. Donnall Thomas. -
Interesting Event #4
46 interesting facts Approximately 77% of all cancers are diagnosed in people who are 55 years old or older. They started these screenings in 1988. -
Interesting Event #1
46 interesting facts Smoking causes an estimated 90% of lung cancer. Tobacco has killed 50 million people in the last decade. If trends continue, a billion people will die from tobacco use and exposure this century, which equates to one person every six seconds -
Interesting fact #2
46 interesting facts In 2008, there were an estimated 12,667,500 new cases of cancer worldwide. Eastern Asia had the most new cases (3,720,000) and Micronesia the fewest (700). North America had approximately 1,603,900 new cases. -
New Detection for Cancer
Early Detection new nanopore sensor is selective and sensitive enough to detect microRNAs at the single molecular level in plasma samples from lung cancer patients. scientists put an extract of blood plasma through a protein-based nanopore, which is a tiny hole in a thin membrane that is just big enough for a single molecule to pass through. By applying an ionic current to the nanopore, the scientists measured changes in the current that occur when the microRNA molecule associated with lung cancer is present -
Major Breakthrough in Cancer Research
Cancer BreakthroughResearches breakthrought to treat their chronic lymhocytic leukemia was after chemotherapy to decrease the volume of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell), the patients received infusions of CART19 T cells, originally from their own immune system. In the patient case discussed, at less than one month after treatment, there was already no residual CLL in the bone marrow and complete resolution of multiple enlarged lymph nodes.
