Cancer History - Timeline

John Cairns began measuring the rate of deaths by cancer

Percival Pott discovered cancer could be caused by external factors

Lung cancer "epidemic" is brought to the attention of the British Government

Austin Bradford Hill devises the randomized trial

Doll and Hill come to the conclusion that smoking cigarettes is the indisputable cause of lung cancer.

Richard Doll and Bradford Hill publish their study of lung cancer

Cigarette era