In 1984 Cesar Milstein and Georges Kohler were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of hybridoma technology, a method leading to the production of unlimited quantities of biological reagents of "exquisite specificity" known as monoclonal antibodies. Focusing on this groun…
This title charts the emergence of a clinical field - medical oncology - for which experimental protocols have become routinized as a form of normal practice.
This title charts the emergence of a clinical field - medical oncology - for which experimental protocols have become routinized as a form of normal practice.
Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy. Most practitioners then viewed the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients with heroic courses of chemotherapy as highly questionable. The randomized clinical trials that today sust…