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Treatment option: Surgery
Surgery optionSurgery was the first successful technique developed to cure cancer. The famous 18th century Scottish surgeon, John Hunter, suggested that some cancers might be cured by surgery if the tumor had not invaded nearby tissue . He stated that if the tumor was “moveable…There is no impropriety in removing it” . -
Developement of the treatment: Radiation
Treatment option:RadiationIn 1896 a German physics professor, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, discovered and presented the properties of X rays. It was within the next few months that X rays were used for diagnosis and in the next 3 years it was used in treatment of cancers. Radiation therapy began with radium and with relatively low-voltage diagnostic machines. -
Cancer Cells are grown in Lab: Fact from Research
Lab grown Cancer CellsCancer cells are grown in the laboratory, establishing the first long-term "tissue culture." -
Chemotherapy treatment
Chemotherapy TreatmentDawn broke on cancer chemotherapy in 1943 thanks to the United States' secret chemical weapons program, during which it was discovered that nitrogen mustard, better known as mustard gas, had a curious effect on the human body: namely, it could wipe out a person's bone marrow and their lymph nodes. -
Detection Option:Thermography
ThermographyThermography (also called thermology) is a little-known technique for breast cancer detection that’s been available since the 1960s. It’s non-invasive and non-toxic, using an infrared camera to measure thermal emissions from the entire chest and auxiliary regions. -
Another Fact
Fact about ResearchCongress passes the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which bans the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio beginning January 2, 1971. -
Fact found in Research: Cancer Vaccine
Cancer Vaccine ResearchThe first human cancer prevention vaccine is introduced—the hepatitis B virus vaccine to prevent liver cancer. -
Cancer Stem Cells: Facts from research
Cancer Stem CellsCancer stem cells are first identified, in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). They will later be identified in additional cancer types, including cancers that form solid tumors. Cancer stem cells in solid tumors are the only cells that have the ability to initiate new tumors. -
Length of cancer survival has increased for all cancers combined.
breakthrough in cancer the proportion of people surviving five years from diagnosis in 2003 (most recent year with five-year follow up) was 66.7 percent. Improvement in survival must continue to meet the Healthy People 2020 objective for five year survival of 72.8 percent. -
Treatment Option: Cancer Vaccines
Cancer Vaccines Cancer vaccines are medicines that belong to a class of substances known as biological response modifiers. Biological response modifiers work by stimulating or restoring the immune system’s ability to fight infections and disease.On April 14, 2009, Dendreon Corporation announced that their Phase III clinical trial of Provenge, a cancer vaccine designed to treat prostate cancer, had demonstrated an increase in survival. -
Breakthrough: Protecting stem cells from Radiation damage
Protecting Stem Cells from Radiation DamageDavid G. Kirsch, MD, PhD (Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovator ‘08-‘10), and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, reported that epidermal growth factor (EGF) speeds the recovery of blood-making hematopoietic stem cells after exposure to radiation. Mice with high levels of EGF were protected from radiation damage. EGF may be able to accelerate the recovery of the blood system in cancer patients treated with chemotherapy or radiation. -
Earliest detection of Cancer 3000 BC
Early Cancer Detection>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#History</a>The earliest written record regarding cancer is from 3000 BC in the Egyptian Edwin Smith Papyrus and describes cancer of the breast.
