Racial variation and cancer: a historical approach
Karamanou, M.; Tekiner, H.; Papaioannou, T.G.; Konstantopoulos, K.; Androutsos, G.
Journal of BUON Official Journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology 21(6): 1568-1570
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 1107-0625 PMID: 28039729 Document Number: 688185
At the end of the 19th century, in an attempt to define cancer's etiology, scientists considered that cancer was mainly affecting the white race and the temperate zone countries. In their turn, epidemiological studies held in the early 20th century sustained the dogma of cancer's racial distribution, targeting and stigmatizing ethnic groups.