First Article Notes

·         “Cancer is a group of diseases in which certain cells within the body lose their ability to regulate cell division.”

·         Normal cells will get destroyed when the cancerous cells enter the body and multiply uncontrollably

·         Cancer was referred to as a scar in the fifteenth century

·         “Until the eighteenth century, Europeans treated cancer with crude methods like cauterization and bloodletting”

·         In the twentieth century the most important conclusion had been drawn

·         The first virus-induced cancer was discovered by Peyton Rous

·         A virus equals the cause of the cancer, concluded by Rous

·         His work was ignored until in 1966 (4 years before he died in 1970) when he received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

·         “It became accepted that some cancers are infectious; that is, they are able to spread from individual to individual via certain viruses”

·         Several viruses including hesitations out of the 24 known can cause additional diseases plus the cancer