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When was the first cancer treatment discovered using "modern" medicine

When was the first cancer treatment discovered using "modern" medicine?
Modern in this sense means from 1850 to the present.
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Well, the most common treatements for cancer are Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Immunotherapy, and Monoclonal Antibody Therapy. Surgery has been around basically FOREVER, so I'm assuming that's not a "modern" method. I would say that it's when Marie and Pierre Curie discovered Radiation at the end of the 19th century. This was the first effective non-surgical cancer treatment. Chemotherapy didn't begin until the 1940s.



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