1907 HUTCHISON, Sir Robert (1871 – 1960)

On suprarenal sarcoma in children with metastases in the skull.

Hutchison’s tumors.

GMN 3868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4920

1910 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944); BURROWS, Montrose Thomas (1884 – 1947)

Cultures de sarcome en dehors de l’organisme.

Using the Rous chicken sarcoma, Carrel and Burrows were the first to grow tumor tissue in vitro.

GMN 2636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3234

1910 ROUS, Francis Peyton (1879 – 1970)

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

Original description of the chicken sarcoma (Rous sarcoma). 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. …

GMN 2637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3238

1920 BULLOCK, Frederick Dabney (1878 – 1937)

A preliminary report on the experimental production of sarcoma of the liver of rats.

Proof that cancer can be caused by a parasite, Cysticercus fasciolaris, the larval stage of Taenia crassicolis. With M. R. Curtis and G. L. Rohdenberg. See also Proc. N.Y. path. Soc., 1920, 20, 149-75.

GMN 2645.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3283

1926 BARNARD, William George (1892 – 1956)

The nature of the “oat-celled sarcoma” of the mediastinum.

An important study of the histology of “oat-celled sarcoma” which Barnard showed to be primary carcinoma of the lung.

GMN 3201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4298