Presentation

History

The History of Cancer

Conclusion

Cancer was first considered to be a body disease, then a tissue disease, and finally became a cell nucleus disease due to the disordered multiplication of cells.

 
From the beginning of the 20th century, the number of cancer centres increased in Europe, and for the first time in the history, the multidisciplinary, in other words the gathering of different disciplines in order to fight the same disease (surgery, X rays, research laboratories, chemotherapy...), became widespread.

 
Knowledge and cancer treatment improved very fastly : in 1895, the discovery of X-rays and in 1898, the discovery of radioactivity brought many changes in treatments; later, chemotherapy, which uses different drugs in order to kill malignant cells, developed and is still being improved; a treatment that is more recent, immunotherapy helps the organism to kill neoplastic cells; biological markers that are substances found in patients humors who have developed certain types of cancer (this early detection allows to treat cancer at an early stage) are also helpful; medical picture is performed by more and more advanced and high-performance machines (RMI, Pet scan ....); there are also attempts to determine genetic pattern of tumors in order to guarantee the efficiency of the treatment. As a result treatments will be more individual and efficient for each patient.

 
Since 1900, range of new treatments and knowledge in the study of cancer has so widely developed that another chapter is focused on it!
This disease will hopefully one day be completely fought thanks to chemists, biologists, physicians, physicists and others....

To access previous parts of the text click on the links :
Introduction : click here
History : untill 1200 AC : click here
History : from 1300 to 1600 AC : click here
History : from 1700 to 1900 AC : click here
Conclusion : see text above