History of Chemotherapy

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SanduskyGeorge_HistoryChemotherapy_20250218.pdf (4.13 MB)
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2025-02-18
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Sandusky, George Earl
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Presentation slides for lecture delivered by George E. Sandusky, DVM, PhD (Senior Research Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Director of the IU Simon Cancer Center Tissue Bank, and Co-Director of the Indiana Center for Biomarker Research in Neuropsychiatry) on February 18, 2025. In this presentation, Dr. Sandusky discusses the beginnings of chemotherapy, starting with General Ulysses S. Grant’s treatment for throat cancer, and ending with Dr. James Allison’s recent developments in immunotherapy. He also introduces the chemotherapy stories of Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Dr. Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman, Babe Ruth, and Dr. Sidney Farber.

Presentation recording available online: https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/791s45xk5m

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History of Medicine, Chemotherapy, Cancer, Neoplasms, Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948
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This event was sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, IU School of Medicine History of Medicine Student Interest Group, IU Indianapolis Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program, and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library.
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