Global Cancer 2019: The old and the new in medical cancer therapy- Daniel Gandia, National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Medical cancer treatment has evolved during a geometric manner since Gilmanes Mechlorethamine introduction into the bedside. Chemotherapy was born and rapidly proved its worth in several tumors and different clinical settings. Initially the brilliant results were seen in hematologic malignancies, namely complete remissions in some sorts of leukemias and lymphomas and posteriorly in solid tumors it changed the natural disease history in osteosarcoma, becoming adjuvant methotrexate the new overall survival drug during this malignancy. Many pediatric and young adults? Tumors comported complete remissions with chemotherapy, rendering them as curable diseases. As this, seminoma became the primary example of a curable cancer model within advanced solid tumors (Cisplatin was the gladiator here). Even when the primary clinical test became from the sixties, during the seventies Oncologists took an interest within the after surgery chemo in carcinoma .

Author(s): Daniel Gandia

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