12 Immigrants Who Made American Medicine Great

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2 6 George Clowes Advances Cancer Treatment George Henry Alexander Clowes was born in England in 1877 He went to school in England and Germany But his real work began after he immigrated to America In 1901 he started work at the Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases These diseases can move from one part of the body to another The most destructive one is cancer And cancer is what Clowes wanted to defeat In 1907 he and a group of doctors and scientists cofounded the American Association for Cancer Research AACR In the early 1900s cancer was a mystery Doctors had known about cancer for more than 5,000 years But they didn’t know how to treat the disease Cancer comes in hundreds of different types Each type needs a specific treatment Researchers had started experimenting with chemicals to