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1895: The first X-ray is taken. Eventually, low-dose X-rays called mammograms will be used to detect breast cancer. 1898: Marie and Pierre Curie discover the radioactive elements radium and...
The history of breast cancer is a complex maze of attempts to understand the wily nature of this hormone-responsive cancer and the will of physicians to conquer it by physical removal (surgery), cell destruction (chemo-radiotherapy) or targeted therapy to cell receptors (biomodulation).
This article reviews the history of breast cancer research and developments in caring for breast cancer patients. Read on to learn what’s been discovered about the risk of developing breast cancer and how treatments have changed over the years.
This article discusses the history of breast cancer and explains how awareness, screening, and treatment have evolved throughout the years.
Clinical and epidemiological evidence has identified many important breast cancer risk factors such as age, family history, early menarche and medical history; factors which are intangible or beyond our control.
The present review discusses the evolution of early breast cancer (BC) treatment philosophy in the last 50 years and the shift from an emphasis on local therapy to an emphasis on systemic precision treatment options.
In 460 B.C., Hippocrates, the father of Western Medicine, described breast cancer as a humoral disease. He postulated that the body consisted of four humors - blood, phlegm, yellow bile,...