Cancer was not a very well known and studied disease until the beginning of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many people before the 1920s believed that trauma was the main cause of cancer (News Medical). There were many “theories” that the people in previous generations thought about how the cancer was formed. In the early 1920s, after WW1, surgeons started applying radium on the patients who had cancer (Virginia
Cancer was not a very well known and studied disease until the beginning of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many people before the 1920s believed that trauma was the main cause of cancer (News Medical). There were many “theories” that the people in previous generations thought about how the cancer was formed. In the early 1920s, after WW1, surgeons started applying radium on the patients who had cancer (Virginia