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feb 1, 1953 - The First Complete Cure of a Human Solid Tumor

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Roy Hertz and Min Chiu Li achieve the first complete cure of a human solid tumor by chemotherapy when they use the drug methotrexate to treat a patient with choriocarcinoma, a rare cancer of the reproductive tissue that mainly affects women.

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feb 1, 1953
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~ 73 years ago