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What Happens in Chemotherapy
Malin Dollinger, MD, and Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
The idea of treating cancer with chemical agents or medications has been around since the days of the ancient Greeks. Yet the practice of cancer chemo-
therapy as it's known today really only
began in the 1940s. Near the end of that
decade, nitrogen mustard became the
first drug approved to fight tumor
cells. Over the next 20 years, chemo-
therapy was essentially an investiga-
tional treatment.
But in the last 30 years, more
effective antitumor drugs have been
developed, and other new drugs and
supportive techniques have come
along to reduce the side effects of the