Tag: Wilms tumor
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The toxin in the garden: The Wilms tumor miracle
Prasad IyerSingapore The history of modern oncology almost always begins with a single name and clinical obsession: Sidney Farber and his war against “the white blood.” The 1947 aminopterin breakthrough at Boston Children’s Hospital is recounted with the reverence of a foundational story, the moment the tide first turned against pediatric leukemia. Yet, in the…
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The eponymous tumors of the kidney: Wilms and Grawitz
In a time when diseases were often named after the first person to describe them, kidney tumors were classified into Wilms tumors for children and Grawitz tumors for adults. Both names supposedly honored the memory of these pioneers, and unlucky candidates sitting for medical examinations were sometimes expected to know who these people were. Max…