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Does any doctor here know when cancer treatments like chemotherapy were first introduced?
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1909: The first modern chemotherapeutic agent was arsphenamine, an arsenic compound discovered in 1909 and used to treat syphilis. Wikipedia.org (chemotherapy) better for history questions.
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