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- What Happens in Chemotherapy
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- Malin Dollinger, MD, and Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Adapted for the Canadian edition by Richard Hasselback, MD
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- The idea of treating cancer with chemical agents
- or medications has been around since the days of
- the ancient Greeks. Yet the practice of cancer
- chemotherapy as it's known today really
- only began in the 1940s. Near the end of
- that decade, nitrogen mustard became
- the first drug approved to fight
- tumor cells . Over the next 20 years,
- chemotherapy was essentially an
- investigational treatment.
- But in the last 30 years, more
- effective antitumor drugs have
- been developed, and other new