摘要
Understanding and treating since tumors dawn have been a long journey when for mankind the of and the 1st century the Greek terms the'carcinoma''onco-'emerged not to the attempted document end recognition War of tumors.the It was until of World using II when first and chemotherapy succeeded was nitrogen mustard in curtailing the tumor burden and of a lymphoma 1946).patient(Gilman,types 1963;
Understanding and treating tumors have been a long journey for mankind since the dawn of the 1st century when the Greek terms ＂carcinoma＂ and ＂onco-＂ emerged to document the recognition of tumors. It was not until the end of World War II when the first chemotherapy was attempted using nitrogen mustard and succeeded in curtailing the tumor burden of a lymphoma patient （Gilman, 1963; Goodman and Wintrobe, 1946）. Today, three types of cancer treatment （surgical resection aside） constitute the main front of fighting cancer： chemotherapy, targeted therapy, radiation therapy, and immunotherapy.
