Tuesday, January 10, 2012

BP #3 - Mini Research: (cancer research in the 1940s / 1950s)


(--What is Chemotherapy?--http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-chemotherapy.htm)Operating roomPill bottle

http://.ncdtpi.nih.gov/timeline/flash/milestones/M2_1949.htm

    There are many methods to treat cancer, such like surgery, radiation, drugs, and so on. One of them ,chemotherapy, defines as "Chemotherapy, broadly speaking, is any regimen of therapy that makes use of chemicals to try to fight a disease. More specifically, it usually refers to a specific set of practices in which chemicals are used to help fight cancer. " It is widely adopt to fight cancer.

    Although chemotherapy has some negative side effects , researchers still believe that it can suppress or eliminate cancer. Hence, throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, many further research was connect to it. Its effective has been proven. They are more and more people live longer after they find they get cancer. But some one was worried about its effects, they refuse to treat by it. No mater what,chemotherapy gives hope to many victims of cancer, and it has to constantly innovating and progressing.

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2 comments:

  1. There is a shortness about cancer cure methods. The chemotherapy let people to be injured again. That is painful process. In the future, it will come true a perfect way to save people from cancers. Do you have ever seen someone fight to cancer in the process of chemotherapy.

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  2. The post is detailed and the topic is clear. I have learned the methods how to treat cancer. Do you know about the recent cancer treatment?

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