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377 entries match Oncology & Cancer [C04]

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1994

#14015

A strong candidate for the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1.

SKOLNICK, Mark Henry (1946 – ) MIKI, Yoshio SHATTUCK-EIDENS, Donna & et al.

Discovery of the BRCA1 gene using the technique of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1994

#14016

Location of a breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRACA2, to chromosome 13q12-13.

STRATTON, Sir Michael Rudolf (1957 – ) WOOSTER, Richard NEUHAUSEN, Susan L. MANGION, Jonathan & et al.

Stratton and colleagues discovered the BRCA2 gene. Oder of authorship in the original publication: Wooster, Neuhausen, Mangion....Stratton. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1995

#10881

Detection of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with and those without HIV infection.

CHANG, Yuan (1959 – )
CHANG, Yuan (1959 – )
MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – )
MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – )

Dated May 4, 1995. Order of authorship in the original publication was Moore, Chang. That the virus causing Kaposi's sarcoma appeared in healthy as well as HIV patients suggested that this virus causes cancer only in …

1995

#10914

Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-related body-cavity-based lymphomas.

CHANG, Yuan (1959 – )
CHANG, Yuan (1959 – )
MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – )
MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – ) CESARMAN, Ethel & et al.

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.)

1996

#10882

Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.

BIGONI, B. DOLCETTI, Riccardo DE LELLIS, L. & et al.

Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…

1998

#7322

An illustrated guide to skin lymphoma.

CERRONI, Lorenzo (1959 – ) KERL, Helmut GATTER, Kevin

1999

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )

2001

#9649

The breast cancer wars: Hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America.

LERNER, Barron H. (1960 – )

2001

#14111

Efficacy and safety of a specific inhibitor of the BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase in chronic myeloid leukemia.

DRUKER, Brian J. (1955 – )
DRUKER, Brian J. (1955 – ) TALPAZ, Moshe (1947 – ) RESTA, Debra J. & et al.

The authors showed that the experimental drug (STI571) Imatinib, sold under the brand names Gleevec and Glivec, 1) was well tolerated and had very significant antileukemic activity in patients with chronic myeloid leu…

2002

#12576

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, cancer and history.

OLSON, James Stuart (1946 – )

"Olson, who lost his left hand and forearm to cancer while writing this book, provides an absorbing and often frightening narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted…

2006

#9820

Mom's cancer.

FIES, Brian

This book was born digital in 2004, and later published in print. See www.momscancer.com. "Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version" "Brian Fies is a freelance…

2008

#13058

DNA sequencing of a cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukaemia genome.

LEY, Timothy J. MARDIS, Elaine R. (1962 – ) WILSON, Richard K. (1959 – )

Ley and collaborators decoded all the genes of a person with cancer (acute myeloid leukemia (AML)) and found a set of mutations that might have caused the disease or aided its progression.

2009

#7477

The history of oncology.

WAGENER, D. J. Theo

2009

#12665

Papillomavirus vaccines. US Patent US7476389B1.

FRAZER, Ian Hector (1953 – )
FRAZER, Ian Hector (1953 – ) ZHOU, Jian (1957 – 1999)

Frazer and Zhou invented and patented the first Papillomavirus vaccine. In 2020 it was marketed as Gardasil and Cervarix. Developed beginning in 1991, about 20 years after Blumberg and Millman's vaccine against viral …

2010

#7862

The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer.

MUKHERJEE, Siddhartha (1970 – )
MUKHERJEE, Siddhartha (1970 – )

2011

#11052

A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.

LÖWY, Ilana (1948 – )

2011

#14112

Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells in chronic lymphoid leukemia.

JUNE, Carl H. (1953 – )
JUNE, Carl H. (1953 – ) PORTER, David L. LEVINE, Bruce L. KALOS, Michael & et al.

Carl H. June and colleagues proved that the ‘concept’ of CAR T-cell therapy developed by them, was a very promising and viable alternative in specific recalcitrant cancers. They showed that their novel in-vitro-create…

2013

#9336

Life atomic: A history of radioisotopes in science and medicine.

CREAGER, Angela N. H. (1963 – )
CREAGER, Angela N. H. (1963 – )

2013

#12682

Catching cancer: The quest for its viral & bacterial causes.

CORNWALL, Claudia Maria (1948 – )

2013

#14101

The haplotype-resolved genome and epigenome of the aneuploidy HeLa cancer cell line.

ADEY, Andrew C. BURTON, Joshua N. KLITZMAN, Jacob O. & et al.

Adey and colleagues sequenced the haplotype-resolved whole genome of the HeLa cancer cell line. This showed a highly rearranged region at chromosome 8q24.21, where an integration locus of the HPV (human papillomavirus…

2014

#10629

The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.

MARANI, Enrico KOCH, Wijnand F. R. M.

"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis and shows its structural…

2014

#11346

Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.

CRAWFORD, Dorothy H. JOHANNESSEN, Ingófur RICKINSON, Alan Bernard

2014

#13738

Cancer concepts: A guidebook for the non-oncologist.

PIETERS, Richard S. BISHOP-JODOIN, Maryann LIEBMANN, James

https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancer_concepts/8/ The first interactive Open access (OA) electronic textbook on any medical subject. This eBook was designed for first year medical students. Order of authorship on t…

2017

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

PERKINS, Barbara Bridgman

2018

#9711

Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.

BARDINET, Thierry

Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…

2019

#10912

Novel virus related to Kaposi's Sarcoma associated herpesvirus from Colobus monkey.

DHINGRA, Akshay GABZENMULLER, Tina HAGE, Elias & et al.

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.

GREWER, Anna BLEYER, Martina MATZ-RENSING, Kerstin & et al.

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…