2.3 Cancer Timeline

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Adapted from Julie Benner, University of Virginia, who based this timeline on information in The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee and “Cancer Progress Timeline” by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Information for 2000 onward was adapted from National Cancer Institute’s “Milestones in Cancer Research and Discovery.”

Throughout its 4,000-year history, cancer has left doctors, scientists and patients with questions that the medical and science fields could not even start to address until recent decades. For centuries, the question has lingered: Will there be a time when we find a way to control or even cure this disease?

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Robert Ruxandrescu

I would say the key lies in the immune system. If we can train the immune system to recognize and kill only the cancer cells then we will cure cancer, for example with the help of the MR-1 gene.

Tyler McDonald

I am having trouble accessing the timeline, is there a way that I can troubleshoot this? It says, "error: error fetching CSV: TypeError: Failed to fetch"

Tyler McDonald

I am having trouble accessing the timeline, is there a way that I can troubleshoot this? It says, "error: error fetching CSV: TypeError: Failed to fetch"

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