A brief history of cancer: Age-old milestones underlying our current knowledge database

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2022-2036

  Faguet, Guy B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; History; Landmarks; Milestones; Pioneers

Indexed keywords

CHLORMETHINE;

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EGYPT; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GREECE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; ITALY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LYMPHOSARCOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; SCROTUM CANCER; SCROTUM DISORDER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ANIMAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84923218019     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29134     Document Type: Review

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