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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-in-Chief: Guillermo Rodriguez Nava, M.D. [2]
Overview
Laennec first recognized lung cancer as a separate disease in 1815, in his work "Encephaloides" published in the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales.[1] Azzopardi, in 1959, distinguished small cell lung cancer (SCLC) from anaplastic adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma and described the historical, cytologic and histochemical features that characterize it as a separate disease.[2]
Historical Perspective
Important landmarks in the history of small cell carcinoma of the lung include the following:
- 1492: Christopher Columbus received tobacco as a gift, among other things, from the Native Americans.[1]
- 1500s: Tobacco reached Europe and its use spreads.[1]
- 1815: Laennec recognized lung cancer as a separate disease.[1]
- 1926: Barnard observed that "oat-celled sarcomas of the mediastinum" were indeed lung neoplasms.[3]
- 1950: Doll and Hill described an association betwwen smoking and lung cancer.[4]
- 1959-1962: SCLC was recognized as separate from other types of lung cancers. Azzopardi described it microscopically and named six characteristic features of it.[2] The term "small cell carcinoma" began to become more popular between American authors, while Europeans continued to call it "oat cell carcinoma", because of the resemblance to oat grains.[3]
- 1962: Watson and Berg described the specificity of SCLC in matters of origin, clinical presentation, natural history, and response to treatment, and rejected the notion that SCLC should be included with other subtypes of lung cancer.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 ROSENBLATT MB (1964). "LUNG CANCER IN THE 19TH CENTURY". Bull Hist Med. 38: 395–425. PMID 14213122.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 AZZOPARDI JG (1959). "Oat-cell carcinoma of the bronchus". J Pathol Bacteriol. 78: 513–9. PMID 13795444.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Barnard, W. G. (1926). "The nature of the "oat-celled sarcoma" of the mediastinum". The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology. 29 (3): 241–244. doi:10.1002/path.1700290304. ISSN 0368-3494.
- ↑ DOLL R, HILL AB (1950). "Smoking and carcinoma of the lung; preliminary report". Br Med J. 2 (4682): 739–48. PMC 2038856. PMID 14772469.
- ↑ WATSON WL, BERG JW (1962). "Oat cell lung cancer". Cancer. 15: 759–68. PMID 14005321.