A history of discoveries that have brought us closer to curing cancer
1923
Radiotherapy first used to treat cervical cancer
1935
First link made between sun and skin cancer
1954
Proof of a link between smoking and lung cancer first published
1956
First chemotherapy drug, methotrexate, used to treat a rare tumor called choriocarcinoma
1963
Discovery of the first human cancer virus
1972
First drug for testicular cancer developed, now 95 per cent of men with it survive
1986
The first ‘monoclonal antibody’ or targeted therapy approved by the Federal Drug Administration (later examples include Herceptin for breast cancer and Avastin for colorectal, lung and othercancers)
1994-95
The first breast cancer genes BRAC-1 and BRAC-2 discovered
2008
The cervical cancer vaccine immunisation programme begins in the UK
2010
Trials show ‘flexi-scope’ screening could prevent a third of bowel cancers
2011
International Cancer Genome Consortium formed to map the genetic faults behind 50 types of cancer.
2013
Trial finds taking the drug anastrazole daily could halve the risk of breast cancer in high risk older women
2016
Scientists build nanoparticles that act as ‘Trojan Horse’ vessels that ferry chemotherapy drugs direct to cancers. Two breast cancer drugs are shown to shrink or eliminate tumours in 11 days. Professor Swanton’s research shows how our own immune cells can be used to cure ‘hopeless case’ secondary or metastasised cancers
Source : telegraph.co.uk
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