Cancer Treatment Timeline

The Evolution of Cancer Treatment

progression. . .

TODAY. . .

we have shown a lot more advancements. . .

. . . than where we started.

However all of this might just be. . .

a part of something

much

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DISCOVERY BLOW-OUT

early ideas of cancer begin to arise

CHEMOTHERAPY

FIRST

MICROSCOPE

recorded account of breast cancer

Anesthesia

Hippocrates

Radiation

Radical Mastectomy

Henry LeDran states that cancer . . .

Fire Drill

later computer and physics

advancements

help further refine

Latin

Greek

(breast cancer surgery) begins to develop

Establishment of

IF:

invented

circulatory system

by Wells

crab

cancer

Rudolf Virchow

Bernard Peyrilhe

carcinos

carcinoma

1) did not yet take

over surrounding

tissues

2) was "movable"

Method

of Cancer Surgery

enables cancer

surgeries to flourish

yellow mustard

found in WWII

used to cure . . .

then enters

x-ray concepts

by Roentgen

used to treat cancer

and later

improved

STARTS

THEN:

inspects samples

and able to diagnose

specific cancer

uses surgery in which

all supporting tissues

are removed as well

by John Hunter

describes cancer as crab shaped

lymph nodes

surgery.

translation

such as radical mastectomy

used for cauterization of cancer

Edwin Smith Papyrus

(cc) image by jantik on Flickr

spreads from origin

in finger-like shapes

black bile theory disproved

cause of cancer theory:

Celsus

black bile

today over

chemotherapy

France

1844

1757

1867

1733

1899

1700s

Scotland

28

3000

370

460

drugs

Germany

50

Egypt

50

AD

Germany

Rome

Greece

1956

helps later advance. . .

conformal proton beam radiation therapy

use of proton beams instead

stereotactic radiation therapy

no cuts made

small

bigger.

nanotechnology

robotic surgery

immunotherapy

new research