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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-in-Chief: Guillermo Rodriguez Nava, M.D. [2]

Overview

Laennec first recognized lung cancer as a separate disease in 1815, in his work "Encephaloides" published in the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales.[1] Azzopardi, in 1959, distinguished this cancer from anaplastic adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma and described the historical, cytology and histochemical features that characterize it as a separate disease.[2]

Historical Perspective

Important landmarks in the history of small cell carcinoma of the lung include the following:

  • 1492: Christopher Columbus received tobacco as a gift, among other things, from the Native Americans.[1]
  • 1500s: Tobacco reach Europe and its use spreads.[1]
  • 1815: Laennec recognized lung cancer as a separate disease.
  • 1950: Doll and Hill described an association betwwen smoking and lung cancer.[3]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 ROSENBLATT MB (1964). "LUNG CANCER IN THE 19TH CENTURY". Bull Hist Med. 38: 395–425. PMID 14213122.
  2. AZZOPARDI JG (1959). "Oat-cell carcinoma of the bronchus". J Pathol Bacteriol. 78: 513–9. PMID 13795444.
  3. DOLL R, HILL AB (1950). "Smoking and carcinoma of the lung; preliminary report". Br Med J. 2 (4682): 739–48. PMC 2038856. PMID 14772469.