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Ancient physicians Galen and Hippocrates
Galen (left) and Hippocrates illustrated on the title page of De Morbo Attonito:...
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
Die krankhaften Geschwülste
Rudolf Virchow devoted significant attention to the pathology of tumors, which is...
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
Ether anesthesia
American dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton administering ether anesthesia...
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Mammography
A radiologist examines a mammogram of a patient to identify potential signs of breast...
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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Photomicrograph of a blood smear indicating chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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Cancer-causing retroviruses
Transforming retroviruses can cause cancer by carrying and expressing oncogenes,...
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Herceptin
The introduction in 1998 of trastuzumab (Herceptin) for the treatment of human epidermal...
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The human genome
Bands of DNA representing a segment of the human genome.
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Immunotherapy
A laboratory technician preparing an immunotherapy treatment for a cancer patient.
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