Chemotherapy History

This is when animals models were used to develop a cure for cancer.

Paul Ehrlich was a man who developed drugs to treat infectious diseases. He came up with the name chemotherapy and defined it as the use of chemicals to treat a disease. He used a rabbit model for syphilis which led to the development of arsenicals to treat this cancer during this year.

George Clowes developed the first of this.

Models for the development of cancer treatment were beginning to be made.

They set up the most organized program that would became a model for cancer drug screening. Ended in 1953 because they're drugs weren't working properly.

The use of nitrogen mustard for lymphomas was used rapidly at this time.

The development of the CCNSC. That is short for Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center. This changed the cancer drug development throughout the world. Founded between May and October.

Metastic cancer was cured. The synthetic compound Methotrexate was used to treat a rare tumor called choriocarcinoma.

Launched the nations war on cancer.

Figure out how to combine the lasers to make the laser chemotherapy more effective as the original version.