Cancer and AI — Selected Events

1942

Patient JD

Goodman, Gilman, and Lindskog secretly treat a patient with non-Hodgkin lymphoma using nitrogen mustard at Yale — the first modern chemotherapy.

Yale 1942 nitrogen mustard archival image
Goodman et al., JAMA 132, 126 (1946); Farber et al., NEJM 238, 787 (1948); Mukherjee, Emperor of All Maladies (2010)
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