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26 entries match Oncology & Cancer [C04] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]
1833
#6028
Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.
Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.
1898
#2003
Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.
The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…
1902
#3780
On the pathological changes in Hodgkin’s disease, with especial reference to its relation to tuberculosis.
Dorothy Reed’s classic work on Hodgkin’s disease included a study of the histological picture. She described the proliferation of the endothelial and reticular cells, and the formation of lymphadenoma cells – “Dorothy…
1911
#2638
Zur Diagnose des Karzinoms.
A serum reaction, employed by Freund and Kaminer in 1910 for the diagnosis of cancer.
1916
#2642
Further investigations on the origin of tumours in mice. III. On the part played by internal secretion in the spontaneous development of tumours.
Demonstration of the influence of an internal secretion on the development of spontaneous cancer. Castration of female mice of a strain in which mammary cancer was frequent reduced its incidence and delayed its growth.
1926
#5782.1
A further report on cancer of the breast, with special reference to its associated antecedent conditions.
First modern case-control study.
1928
#2652
Cancer and heredity.
By selective breeding over a period of 15 years, Slye produced generations of mice absolutely resistant to, or particularly susceptible to, cancer. She demonstrated that resistance is a Mendelian dominant and suscepti…
1937
#2659
The carcinogenic action of oestrone: induction of mammary carcinoma in female mice of a strain refractory to the spontaneous development of mammary tumours.
With L. H. Stickland and K. I. Connal.
1942
#2700.01
Metabolic studies on neoplasm of bone with the aid of radioactive strontium.
Radioisotopic bone scanning. With B. Low-Beer, H. Friedell, and J. Lawrence.
1944
#2659.2
“Folic acid” a tumor growth inhibitor.
Inhibition of tumor growth by a folic acid concentrate. With R. Lewisohn, D. Laszlo. These workers later (Proc. Soc. exp. Biol. N. Y., 1944, 56, 144-45) obtained similar results with xanthopterin.
1945
#3869
A tentative test for pheochromocytoma.
The Roth–Kvale histamine test for the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma.
1946
#3106
Leukaemia treated with urethane compared with deep x-ray therapy.
Urethane in treatment of leukemia. With A. Haddow, I. Ap Thomas, and J. M. Watkinson.
1948
#4154.1
Melanomas of childhood.
Spitz first defined the histologic criteria for the diagnosis of juvenile melanoma.
1956
#7782
Preliminary communication: Malignant disease in childhood and diagnostic irradiation in-utero.
Stewart was one of the earliest to study the effect of prenatal X-rays, later replaced by ultrasound. She found that the children of mothers who received these X-rays were almost twice as likely to develop leukemia or…
1957
#2660.10
The induction of neoplasms with a substance released from mouse tumors by tissue culture.
Isolation of polymavirus (papovavirus). With B. E. Eddy, A. M. Gochenour, N. G. Borgese, and G E. Grubbs.
1960
#2660.13
Virus-cell interaction with a tumour-producing virus.
Polyomavirus (papovavirus) shown to be capable of transforming cells in culture. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.
1964
#2660.17
Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Barr. Discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus, a human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis, and implicated in Burkitt’s lymphoma and other forms of cance…
1964
#2660.18
Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Achong, Barr. Presence of herpes-like virus particles in Burkitt’s tumor cells reported. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus to be …
1968
#3108.9
Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.
Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.
1988
#10452
A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.
"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Resea…
1995
#10914
Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-related body-cavity-based lymphomas.
Chang, Moore and colleagues showed that the virus causing Kaposi's Sarcoma also causes body cavity lymphomas and lymphomatous effusions in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
2011
#11052
A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.
2014
#11346
Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.
2017
#10555
Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.
2019
#10912
Novel virus related to Kaposi's Sarcoma associated herpesvirus from Colobus monkey.
Discovery of a new Karposi's Sarcoma virus in monkeys, named CbGHV1. Autopsy showed that the monkey died from a "primary effusion lymphoma" similar to the deaths of humans from human Karposi Sarcoma virus. (Thanks to …
2019
#10913
Kaposi sarcoma in mantled guereza.
Order of authorship in original publication: Grewer, Bleyer, Matz-Rensing. Further work on the CBGHV1 (Colobine gammherpesvirus 1) which causes a pathology in the Colobus monkey very similar to that seen humans. (Than…