A History of Cancer Research: Carcinogens and Mutagens.

Abstract excerpt

Observations of the incidence of tumors among chimney sweeps in the eighteenth century and later experiments with coal tars provided early evidence that carcinogens in the environment can promote cancer. Subsequent studies of individuals exposed to radiation, work on fly genetics, and the discovery that DNA was the genetic material led to the idea that these carcinogens act by inducing mutations in DNA that...

Topics

• Biomedical Research
• Carcinogens
• History, 18th Century
• History, 19th Century
• History, 20th Century
• History, 21st Century
• Humans
• Mutagens
• Mutation
• Neoplasms
• Occupational Diseases