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Cancer patient treatment and studies were restricted to individual physicians' practices until World War II when medical research centres discovered that there were large international differences in disease incidence. This insight drove national public health bodies to enable the compilation of health data across practices and hospitals, a ...
Cancer was traditionally treated with surgery, heat, or herbal (chemical) therapies. 2600 BC – Egyptian physician Imhotep diagnosed several types of tumour and therapies for them. According to the Ebers medical papyrus, hard tumours were treated by placing a poultice near the tumour, followed by local incision. [1]
Year Disease Discoverer 2600 BC: Malaria [1]: 1900 BC: Rabies: 1600 BC: Cancer: Hippocrates: ca 300: Dengue: Jin Dynasty (266–420) 9th century: Measles: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
Researchers have examined the impact a common bacteria can have on head and neck cancers. Common mouth bacteria found to ‘melt’ certain cancers in ‘surprising’ discovery Skip to main content
1988: Bart van Wees and colleagues at TU Delft and Philips Research discovered the quantized conductance in a two-dimensional electron gas. 1990: Mary-Claire King discovers the link between heritable breast cancers and a gene found on chromosome 17q21. [128] [129]
In 2008 it conducted a study that found radiation, then publicly documented for the first time in 2023 the detection of radiation involving levels of radium-226 and strontium-90.
A new type of bacteria was found in 50% of colon cancers. Many were aggressive cases. Kaitlin Sullivan. March 20, 2024 at 11:08 AM. Doctor holding a colon anatomy model for study ...
The era of cancer chemotherapy began in the 1940s with the first use of nitrogen mustards and folic acid antagonist drugs. The targeted therapy revolution has arrived, but many of the principles and limitations of chemotherapy discovered by the early researchers still apply.