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E. B. Ford – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

September 11, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._Ford
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Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford FRS Hon. FRCP (23 April 1901 – 21 January 1988) was a British … His work on the wild populations of butterflies and moths was the first to show that the predictions made by R.A. Fisher were correct.
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British Doctors Study – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

September 11, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Doctors_Study
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The British Doctors’ Study was a prospective cohort study which ran from 1951 to 2001, and in … Context[edit]. Although there had been suspicions of a link between smokingand various diseases, the evidence for this link had been largely circumstantial. … The original study was run by Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill.
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Smoking as a Factor in Causing Lung Cancer | Feb 04, 2009 | JAMA | JAMA Network

September 11, 2016

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=183306
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In 1950, when Wynder and Graham published their landmark article in JAMA about the link between smoking and lung cancer
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Chimney sweeps’ carcinoma – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

September 11, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps’_carcinoma

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Chimney sweep’s cancer, also called Soot wart, is a squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum. It has the distinction of being the first reported form of occupational cancer, and was initially identified by Percivall Pott in 1775.[1] It was initially noticed as being prevalent amongst chimney sweeps.
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John Christian Bailar – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

September 11, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christian_Bailar

CANCER PROGRESS – ARE THE STATISTICS TELLING THE TRUTH? – NYTimes.com

September 11, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/18/science/cancer-progress-are-the-statistics-telling-the-truth.html?pagewanted=all

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– John Cairns, a cancer analyst at the Harvard School of Public Health, likens the statistical advances reported by official cancer agencies and leading cancer scientists to the inflated and meaningless body counts used to measure progress in the Vietnam War. ”Their body counts are way too high,” he said in an interview. ”It’s like interrogating a general in Saigon. They come up with statistics that don’t add up.”
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Tamoxifen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

September 11, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamoxifen
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In the late 1950s, pharmaceutical companies were actively researching a newly discovered class of anti-estrogen compounds in the hope of developing a morning-after contraceptive pill. Arthur L Walpole was a reproductive endocrinologist who led such a team at the Alderley Park research laboratories of ICI Pharmaceuticals. It was there in 1966 that Dora Richardson first synthesised tamoxifen, known then as ICI-46,474.[59] Walpole and his colleagues filed a UK patent covering this compound in 1962, but patent protection on this compound was repeatedly denied in the US until the 1980s.[60]

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Elwood V. Jensen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

September 11, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood_V._Jensen

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In 2004 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his research on estrogen receptors. He is considered the father of the field of hormone action.[1]

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Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy

September 11, 2016

http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20090612/prostate-cancer-who-needs-chemical-castration

chemical castration

Charles Brenton Huggins – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

September 11, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brenton_Huggins

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Charles Brenton Huggins (September 22, 1901 – January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-American physician, physiologist and cancer researcher at theUniversity of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 thathormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers.[1] This was the first discovery that showed that cancer could be controlled by chemicals.
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prostate cancer