How old is chemotherapy

        1. How old is chemotherapy

          2. Chemotherapy was....

          Timeline of cancer treatment development

          This is a historical timeline of the development and progress of cancer treatments, which includes time of discovery, progress, and approval of the treatments.

          The era of chemotherapy had begun.

        2. The era of chemotherapy had begun.
        3. The era of cancer chemotherapy began in the 1940s with the first use of nitrogen mustards and folic acid antagonist drugs.
        4. Chemotherapy was.
        5. A big breakthrough, Michaud says, came in the early 1990s when a new class of drugs called serotonin antagonists were introduced.
        6. The use of chemotherapy to treat cancer began at the start of the 20th century with attempts to narrow the universe of chemicals that might affect the disease.

          7. Ancient Era

          [edit]

          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]

          • BC  – Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians used heat to treat masses.

            Healers in ancient India used regional and whole-body hyperthermia as treatments.[2]

          • 2 AD  – Ancient Greeks describe surgical treatment of cancer.[3][4]

          Modern Era

          [edit]

          1800s

          [edit]

          • 1820s  – British Dr.

            James Arnott, "the father of modern cryosurgery", starts to use cryotherapy to freeze tumours in the treatment of breast and uterine cancers[5]

          • 1880s