The terms used to describe cancer in word list; W
Western blot hybridization, identifies and analyzes proteins or peptides.
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. A German Physics. In 1896, He used the term ‘X-ray’ during a lecture he gave (X is the algebraic symbol of an unknown). Within months, systems were being devised to use X-rays for diagnosis. Roentgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution.
William Coley; who in the late 1800s felt that the rate of cure after surgery had been higher before asepsis (and who injected bacteria into tumors with mixed results), cancer treatment became dependent on the individual art of the surgeon at removing a tumour.
William Stewart Halsted; In the 1880s and 1890s, He devised an extensive operation for breast cancer that entailed removal of the breast and underlying muscles, and lymph nodes under the arm. He eventually achieved an unprecedented 72 percent five-year cure rate for patients whose disease had not spread to adjoining glands.
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