The average cost to fill a prescription for the consumer was $10 for generic statins versus $48 for brand names. âGiven this substantial cost difference, it is perhaps not surprising that adherence and cardiovascular outcomes were worse among patients receiving brand-name statins,â study authors wrote. Overall, people who took generic drugs had 8% fewer incidents than people who used brand-name drugs.
Chemotherapy was discovered during World War II when a ship carrying sulfur mustards (a nerve agent to be used in chemical warfare) was bombed and the troops on board were exposed to the chemical. Those men affected tested for depleted bone marrow and lymph systems â cells that naturally divide faster than other cells.
Timeline: cancer's history. 80 million years ago. Dinosaur bone fossils from this period show possible evidence of containing cancerous cells. 3000 BC. Evidence of cancer found in Egyptian mummies from this period. 1600 BC. Egyptian papyruses describe treatments for cancer including cutting out with a knife or burning with red-hot irons.