Lymphoma Awareness Month
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Kayla
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September is Lymphoma Awareness Month.
Surgery and radiation dominated cancer therapy into the 1960s, with cure rates plateauing around 33%.
Dr. Henry Kaplan at Stanford co-developed the first medical linear accelerator in the US in 1955 and pioneered radiation therapy techniques for Hodgkin lymphoma. In 1961, he recruited Dr. Saul Rosenberg, a medical oncologist, and together they revolutionized how we understand and treat lymphomas.
Meanwhile, Dr. Vincent DeVita and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute developed the MOPP chemotherapy regimen in the 1960s - the first combination chemotherapy to cure a solid tumor in adults. Complete remission rates went from 0% to 80% in advanced Hodgkin lymphoma patients.
These doctors didn't just treat patients - they rewrote the rules of what was thought possible in cancer care.