Prostate Cancer Time Line Part 2: Appoaches to Treatment

TABLE 2: APPROACHES TO CANCER TREATMENT

YEARS	Chemotherapy	Endocrine era	Viral	Environmental/ chemical	Nutritional
1700-1800				1775: Percivall Pott discovered the relationship between exposure to soot and development of squamous cell carcinomas of the skin (Berlin)
1800-1899		1895: George Beatson reported tumor regressions in pre-menopausal women undergoing oophorectomy for breast cancer (Berlin)
1900
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8			Ellerman and Bang identified the fowl leukosis virus (Berlin)
9
10
11			Peyton Rous discovered the virus that produces sarcoma in chickens (Berlin)
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30					Albert Tannebaum showed that calorically restricted diets protected animals from cancer (Berlin)
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39	Leon Jacobsen noted the effect of nitrogen mustard on lymphomas (during WWII) (Berlin)
40
41
42
43
44
45	Sidney Farber began treating childhood leukemia with folic acid antagonists (Berlin)
46
47
48
49
50			Sarah Stewart identified the polyoma virus (Berlin)
51
52
53	Methotrexate began to achieve high cure rates in treating choriocarcinoma (Berlin)
54
55
56
57
58
59
60				Studies in the 60s about Japanese migrants moving to California (stomach cancer decreased, colorectal increased) (Berlin)
61
62
63
64
65
66		Charles Huggins received a Nobel Prize for his earlier work demonstrating the effect of hormonal manipulation (castration and adrenalectomy) in prostate cancer (Berlin)
67
68
69
70	Combination chemotherapy providing long-term survival for 50% of children with acute lymphocytic leukemia (Berlin)	Elwood Jensen identified an estrogen receptor in some breast cancers (Berlin)
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100

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Bernoulli, R. Un Gran méconnu: Gustave Roussy. Gesnerus 37 (1980), 34-19.

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Braun, Armin C. History of the Tumor Problem. In: The Story of Cancer. On its Nature, Causes, and Control. New York: 1977.

Breslow, Lester. A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971. Bethesda: 1977.

Bruno, Anthony. National Cancer Institutes: An Overview with Historic Footnotes: A Report on the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Health Agreement. National Cancer Institute Monographs 40 (February 1974), 7-20.

Carroll, K.K. & H. T. Khor ?? Progress in Biochemical Pharmacology 10 (1975).

Cassileth, Barrie R. The Evolution of Oncology. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 26 (Spring 1983), 362-74.

Creech, H.J. Historical Review of the American Association of Cancer Research, Inc., 1941-1978. Cancer Research 39 (June 1979), 1863-90.

Deeley, Thomas J. A Brief History of Cancer. Clinical Radiology 34 (1983), 597-608.

Dukes, C.E. The Origin and Early History of Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeon of England 36 (1965), 1165-69.

Gallucci, Betty B. Selected Concepts of Cancer as a Disease: From the Greeks to 1900. Oncology Nursing Forum 12 (July-August 1985), 67-71.

Selected Concepts of Cancer as a Disease: From 1900 to Oncogenes. Oncology Nursing Forum 12 (July-August 1985), 69-78.

Hafermann, M. External Radiotherapy. Urology 17 (April 1981), 15.

Nakahara, Waro. A Pilgrim's Progress in Cancer Research, 1918 to 1974: An Autobiographical Essay. Cancer Research 34 (1974), 1767-74.

Perez, Carlos A., William R. Fair, Daniel C. Ihde, and Ferdinand Labrie. Cancer of the Prostate. In: Vincent P. DeVita, Jr., Samuel Hellman, and Steven A. Rosenberg. Cancer. Principles & Practice of Oncology. 1985. Pp. 929.

The Royal Marsden Hospital. Cancer Bulletin 14 (May-June 1962), 53.

Rettig, Richard A. Cancer Crusade: The Story of the National Cancer Act of 1971. Princeton: 1977.

Rusch, Harold P. The Beginnings of Cancer Research Centers in the United States. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 74 (February 1985), 391-403.

Schmidt, Benno C. Five Years Into the National Cancer Program: A Retrospective Perspective - the National Cancer Act of 1971. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 59 (August 1977), 687-92.

Scott, William W. Historical Overview of the Treatment of Prostate Cancer. The Prostate 4 (1983), 435-40.

Shelley, Harry S. The Enlarged Prostate. A Brief History of Its Treatment. The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 24 (October 1969), 452-73.

Sproul, Edith E. Acid Phosphatase and Prostate Cancer: Historical Overview. The Prostate 1 (1980), 411-13.

Comments:
Cancer is a disease of modern society for several reasons: 1. Increase in life expectancy; 2. Better clinical diagnosis; 3. Increased exposure to causative carcinogens (deeley)

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