An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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ROUS, Francis Peyton

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A transmissible avian neoplasm (sarcoma of the common fowl).

J. exp. Med. 12, 696-705; 13, 397-411, 1910, 1911.

Original description of the chicken sarcoma (Rous sarcoma). More than 50 years later (1966) Rous shared the Nobel Prize with Charles Huggins for work on cancer. Rous demonstrated that sarcomatous tumors in hens could be transmitted to normal hens by the injection of cell-free filtrates (virus) of the original tumor. The Rous Sarcoma Virus was the first oncovirus discovered.



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Sarcoma › Soft Tissue Sarcoma, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Retroviridae › Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV)