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http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20090612/prostate-cancer-who-needs-chemical-castration

chemical castration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brenton_Huggins

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Charles Brenton Huggins (September 22, 1901 – January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-American physician, physiologist and cancer researcher at theUniversity of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 thathormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers.[1] This was the first discovery that showed that cancer could be controlled by chemicals.
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prostate cancer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisplatin

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19740528&id=qgtiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a-UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5129,9648489&hl=en

Stewart Alsop & Cancer

http://www.texascancercenter.com/cancerhistory.html
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This theory of "centrifugal spread" became the foundation of surgical oncology. We now know that this theory was wrong. Cancer does spread to distant organs primarily through the blood stream. But Halsted’s great reputation at the time meant acceptance of his ideas as holy writ.

This flawed perception of tumor spread supported aggressive surgical treatment. Surgeons believed that if the tumor could be surrounded and removed the patient could be cured. The "centrifugal spread" theory meant that cure was totally in the hands of their surgeon

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https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat414/node/307

development of statistical power

http://saatchibill.tumblr.com/post/82180619294/the-word-lumpectomy-was-a-surgeons-insult#.V9Vs85MrKXQ

Keynes

http://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/legislative/history/national-cancer-act-1971

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident

had an impact on ’70s cancer research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rous_sarcoma_virus

RSV causes cancer