Who invented Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy?
It was sort of a long, drawn out process that is still occuring. No one actually invented it per se. Some of the first forms of chemo were actually discovered from things like musturd gas, used in the wars. It was then shown to have positive effects on Hodgkins lymphoma. Although at that time chemo rarley ever cured anyone, it just slowed the growth and gave people extra time. 200 years from now people will probably say that our time was in the very early stages of chemo, and many more “inventions” will take place over the next centuries.
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