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Evolution of Cancer Treatment: 20 TH Century

Cancer treatment has evolved significantly over the past century. During the early 20th century, cancer was considered incurable and treated with radiation. In the 1940s, drugs like methotrexate were discovered to treat cancers like leukemia, representing the first targeted drug therapies. By the 1960s, chemotherapy was established as a treatment approach in Peru through the work of Dr. Andrés Solidoro. Today, treatment involves multiple combined approaches including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, biological and targeted therapies tailored to each cancer type.

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Evolution of Cancer Treatment: 20 TH Century

Cancer treatment has evolved significantly over the past century. During the early 20th century, cancer was considered incurable and treated with radiation. In the 1940s, drugs like methotrexate were discovered to treat cancers like leukemia, representing the first targeted drug therapies. By the 1960s, chemotherapy was established as a treatment approach in Peru through the work of Dr. Andrés Solidoro. Today, treatment involves multiple combined approaches including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, biological and targeted therapies tailored to each cancer type.

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EVOLUTION OF CANCER TREATMENT

Cancer is a disease. There are many types of cancer. It can start in the lungs, breast,
colon, or even in the blood. Different types of cancer have some similarities, but they
are different in the way they grow and spread.

20 TH CENTURY

Cancer was considered an incurable disease, synonymous with death.

During the First World War, the doctor used to apply mustard gas for the regestion of
some neoplasms

In the third decade of the twentieth century it was discovered that the application of
radiation. it was a very effective method to solve some types of neoplasms.

DECADE OF 40

In the 1940s, some innovations began to emerge in developed countries. In 1947,


Farber discovered methotrexate. This drug used to be a drug that blocks a metabolite
of folic acid. In addition, it prevents the development of acute leukemia. It was the first
time that hematological improvement was achieved in patients with this neoplasm

DECADE OF 50

In the same decade of the 60, Dr. Andrés Solidoro, started the era of chemotherapy in
Peru. This renowned Peruvian physician has been very prolific in his contributions to
oncology, emphasizing his studies on Hodgking's disease in children.

DECADE OF 80

In 1973, nuclear magnetic resonance was introduced for the first time. it´s used to
apply cancer treatment

TODAY

Actually, there are more innovations in the medical treatment of cancer, such as: the
combination of endocrine therapy, chemotherapy, biological therapy. Currently we are
not talking about chemotherapy but about pharmacotherapy.

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