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Earliest recorded incidence of cancer
In 1600 BC in Egypy the first detected cancer sighting held place. http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Brief-History-of-Cancer---Earliest-Known-Diagnosis-of-Cancer&id=4546111 -
Radiation discovery
When radiation was first discovered to help cure cancer. http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q1376.html -
Chemotherapy development
The history of chemotherapy started with scientists examining the effects of military weapons. Today it is a race to cure rather than a race to kill. http://www.coloncancerresource.com/history-of-chemotherapy.html -
Dog that detects cancer
Dogs do as well as state-of-the-art screening tests at sniffing out people with lung or breast cancer. The research raises the possibility that trained dogs could detect cancers even earlier and might some day supplement or even replace mammograms and CT scans in the laboratory.http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8549-xd-dogs-as-good-as-screening-for-cancer-detection.html -
Brachytherapy development
U.T.’s Health Science Centre unveiled a new promising cancer treatment that revolutionized the way to treat cancerous tumors in patients’ lungs. This new finding is called Brachytherapy, a new cancer treatment without surgery. http://www.treatgene.com/top-10-discoveries-of-cancer-treatment-in-2009/ -
Suicide Gene developed
A group of researchers from National Cancer Institute (NCI) have used the suicide genes that cause a cell to kill itself through apoptosis to treat cancer. This new technique used the surviving gene promoter to induce the expression of suicide gene in cancer cells with a minimum effect on normal cells. http://www.treatgene.com/top-10-discoveries-of-cancer-treatment-in-2009/ -
Nicotine knowledge acquired
On 2nd of November 2009, the researchers from National Cancer Institute (NCI) showed that the combination of nicotine patch and nicotine lozenge provided the great benefit for smokers to quit smoking effectively.http://www.treatgene.com/top-10-discoveries-of-cancer-treatment-in-2009/ -
Breakthrough against leukemia
The drug Gleevec can keep chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, at bay for as long as the patient takes the drug. However, leukemia stem cells lurk in the patient’s marrow waiting to develop into cancer. Gleevec has no effect on these stem cells. And while leukemia stem cells lie in wait, they can become resistant to Gleevec. When they grow into adult cells, the patient develops leukemia again.http://www.cityofhope.org/about/facts-and-figures/Pages/recent-research-breakthroughs.aspx -
Second hand smoking
Second hand smoking can be potentially just as at risk to getting cancer as smoking itself depending on how often one is exposed. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-036845.pdf -
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is a common type of cancer for men to get. I thought breast cancer was only for women. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-036845.pdf -
Cancer deaths
Around half of the population dies eventually from a cancer-related death. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-036845.pdf -
Tumors
A tumor is a result of cells dividing uncontrollably and too quickly. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-036845.pdf
