User:Twillisjr/Cancer timeline

This is a timeline of Cancer research 

Early cancer interventions (1775-1913)

 * Percivall Pott, a British surgeon, discovered the first cause of cancer in the scrotum among chimney sweeps in 1775
 * Theodor Boveri, German zoologist recognizes the genetic basis of cancer in 1902
 * American Cancer Society founded in 1913
 * American Cancer Society founded in 1913

Pharmaceuticals for Treatments (1960s-2011)

 * ThioTEPA in use 1960s
 * Cytarabine approved by FDA June 1969
 * Procarbazine approved by FDA July 1969
 * Dacarbazine approved by FDA May 1975
 * Lomustine approved by FDA 1976
 * Carmustine approved by FDA in 1977
 * Etoposide approved by FDA in 1983
 * Temozolomide approved by FDA August, 1999
 * Dacarbazine approved by FDA in 2007
 * Sorafenib approved by FDA in November 2007
 * Sunitinib approved by FDA 2011
 * Sunitinib approved by FDA 2011