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377 entries match Oncology & Cancer [C04]
1939
#3213
Tabakmissbrauch und Lungencarcinom.
In the first case-control epidemiological study of the effects of tobacco Müller recorded a statistically significant correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. See Alfredo Morabia, "Quality, originality, …
1939
#3787.2
Radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease (malignant granulomatosis). Anatomic and clinical foundations; governing principles; results.
Gilbert was among the first to achieve durable responses to radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease.
1940
#2010.2
Acceleration of electrons by magnetic induction.
Betatron. Continued as Kerst, "The acceleration of elecrons by magnetic induction," Phys. Rev., 60 (1941) 47-52. Digital facsimile of the 1941 paper at this link.
1940
#3099
Nuclear physics and therapy: preliminary report on a new method for the treatment of leukemia and polycythemia.
Radio-phosphorus in treatment of leukemia.
1940
#9483
A preliminary report on the use of fast neutrons in the treatment of malignant disease.
First report on the introduction of neutron therapy for cancer. See Hans Svensson & Torsten Landberg, "Neutron therapy--the historical background," Acta Oncologica, 33:3 (1984) 227-231. In 1938 Stone began clinical tr…
1941
#4276
Studies on prostatic cancer. I. The effect of castration, of estrogen, and of androgen injection on serum phosphatases in metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.
In 1966 Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer."
1941
#6135
The diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.
The first cytopathology test, smear diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix: the "Pap" test. Papanicolaou first reported in 1928 that he could recognize cancer cells (Proc. Third Race Betterment Conf., p. 528) but the im…
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.
1942
#3853
Application of radioactive iodine in therapy of Graves’s disease.
1943
#13597
Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.
"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …
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.
1944
#2659.3
Influence of synthetic oestrogens upon advanced malignant disease.
Administration of synthetic estrogens in advanced mammary cancer caused regression of tumors. With J. M. Watkinson, E. Paterson, and P. C. Koller.
1945
#2659.4
The synchrotron: a proposed high energy particle accelerator.
In 1951 McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."
1945
#3869
A tentative test for pheochromocytoma.
The Roth–Kvale histamine test for the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma.
1945
#4276.1
Bilateral adrenalectomy in prostatic cancer; clinical features and urinary excretion of 17-ketosteroids and estrogen.
Adrenalectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.
1946
#2659.5
The design of a proton linear accelerator.
Linear ion accelerator. In 1968 Alvarez received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possi…
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.
1946
#3788
The biological actions and therapeutic applications of the ß-chloroethyl amines and sulfides.
Introduction of nitrogen mustard in treatment of Hodgkin’s disease
1946
#9338
Radioactive iodine therapy: Effect on functioning metastases of adenocarcinoma of the thyroid.
Seidlin and Marinelli described the first successful treatment of a patient with thyroid cancer metastases using radioiodine (I-131). This paper demonstrated the potential of nuclear medicine as a medical specialty.
1946
#10133
Nitrogen mustard therapy. Use of methyl-bis(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride and tris(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride for Hodgkin's disease, lymphosarcoma, leukemia and certain allied and miscellaneous disorders.
Widely considered the first uses of chemotherapy for the treatment of malignant diseases.
1947
#2660
Effect of intraperitoneal injection of malignant urine extracts in normal and hypophysectomized rats.
Test for diagnosis of cancer. With B. Halperin and S. H. Libert.
1948
#2660.1
Temporary remissions in acute leukemia in children produced by folic acid antagonist 4-amethopteroylglutamic acid (aminopterin).
With L. K. Diamond, R. D. Mercer, R. F. Sylvester, and V. A. Wolff.
1948
#2662.1
Index to the literature of experimental cancer research 1900-1935.
Divided into author and subject sections.
1948
#4154.1
Melanomas of childhood.
Spitz first defined the histologic criteria for the diagnosis of juvenile melanoma.
1950
#2660.2
A sensitive directional gamma-ray detector.
Directional scintillation detector probe. Cassen assembled the first automated scanning system, comprised of a motor driven scintillation detector coupled to a relay printer. The scanner was initially used to image th…
1950
#3215.1
Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic carcinoma: A study of 684 proved cases.
A case-control study proving an association between heavy prolonged cigarette smoking and bronchogenic carcinoma. See also the following paper on pp. 336-38. Reprinted in J. Amer. med. Assoc. 1985, 253, 2986-97.
1950
#3215.2
Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report.
A study of 1,465 cases of lung cancer and 1,465 matched controls, which confirmed and extended the studies of Wynder and Graham, and others. See also later papers by the same authors in Brit. med. J., 1952, 2,1271-86;…
1950
#3788.1
Triethylene melamine in the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and allied neoplasms
With D. A. Karnofsky, J. H. Burchenal, and L. F. Craver.
1951
#2660.3
Contributions to the study of marine products. XXXII. The nucleosides of sponges.
Cytosine arabinoside, a pyramidine antagonist, used in acute myeloblastic anemia.
1952
#7764
Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.
1952
#14100
Tissue culture studies of the proliferative capacity of cervical carcinoma and normal epithelium.
A cell biologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Gey propagated the HeLa cell line from Henrietta Lacks' cervical tumor. This cell line, which maintained a continuous growth phase, was the first immortal human cell line to…
1953
#2660.4
Aryl-2-halogenoalkylamines. Part XII. Some carboxylic derivatives of NN-Di 2-chloroethylaniline.
Chlorambucil (a nitrogen mustard) used in the chemotherapy of cancer. With J. R. Roberts and W. J. C. Ross.
1953
#2660.5
Clinical studies on the carcinolytic action of triethylenephosphoramide.
TEPA. With five co-authors.
1953
#2660.6
The concentration of oxygen dissolved in tissues at the time of irradiation as a factor in radiotherapy.
The sensitivity of tumour cells to x rays shown to be much enhanced when irradiated in a well-oxygenated medium. With A. D. Conger, M. Ebert, S. Hornsey, and O. C. A. Scott.
1953
#3108.3
Clinical evaluation of a new antimetabolite, 6-mercaptopurine, in treatment of leukemia and allied diseases.
Clinical introduction of 6-mercaptopurine in treatment of acute leukemia and chronic myelocytic leukemia. With nine co-authors.
1953
#3108.5
Treatment of leukemia with triethylenethiophosphoramide (Thio-TEPA); preliminary results in experimental and clinical leukemia.
With C. Zarafonetis, N. Smith, I. Woldow and D. C. H. Sun.
1953
#3908.1
Experience with hypophysectomy in man.
Demonstration of the beneficial effect of hypophysectomy in cancer of the breast and of the testis.
1954
#2660.7
Cytoactive amino-acid and peptide derivatives. I. Substituted phenylalanines.
Melphalan (a nitrogen mustard) later used in the chemotherapy of cancer.
1955
#2660.8
Carcinolytic action of antibiotics: puromycin and actinomycin.
1955
#3108.6
Clinical trials of p-(DI-2-chloroethylamino)-phenylbutyric acid (CB 1348) in malignant lymphoma.
Clinical use of chlorambucil for chronic lymphatic leukemia. With L. G. Israels, J. D. N. Nabarro, and M. Till.
1956
#1947.3
Mitomycin, a new antibiotic from streptomyces.
Isolation of mitomycin C, effective in Hodgkin’s disease and lymphoma. With six co-authors.
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
#2660.9
Fluorinated pyrimidines, a new class of tumour-inhibitory compounds.
Synthesis of 5-fluorouracil. With eight co-authors.
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.
1957
#2578.22
Virus interference. I. The interferon.
Discovery of interferon type I, a protein that interferes with viral replication. "While working together at the NIMR, Lindenmann and Isaacs noticed that if they killed viruses using heat and applied the dead viruses …
1957
#13594
Intravenous infusion of bone marrow in patients receiving radiation and chemotherapy.
Thomas and colleagues reported the first bone marrow transplants. They described the treatment of six patients with cancers and/leukemia and one patient with multiple myeloma. Three of the patients died, two responded…
1958
#2660.11
Neuartige Krebs-Chemotherapeutica aus der Gruppe der zyklischen N-Lost-Phosphamidester.
Cyclophosphamide. With F. Bourseaux and N. Brock.
1958 –1959
#2660.12
A sarcoma involving the jaws in African children.
Burkitt’s lymphoma (African lymphoma), first described in detail by Sir Albert Cook, a medical missionary, but not published by him.
1959
#13334
Transfusions et greffes de moelle osseuse homologue chez des humains irradiés a haute dos accidentellement.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mathé, Jammet, Pendic et al. Mathé performed the first bone marrow graft between unrelated donors and hosts in order to save six Yugoslavian nuclear researchers who had…
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.