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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
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.