Francis Peyton Rous

Francis Peyton Rous 1879-1970.

The fourth front against cancer

Exactly a century ago, uS pathologist Francis peyton rous demonstrated that cancer can be transmitted among chickens by a virus. although few believed him at the time, the virus was eventually named after him—rous sarcoma virus— and rous was awarded the nobel prize for Medicine, 55 years later in 1966. in 1964, anthony Epstein, Bert achong and yvonne Barr isolated the first human cancer virus f...

Peyton Rous

In 1910, Peyton Rous identified a transmissible avian tumor virus, a discovery that began the journey from tumor virus biology to tumor biology itself.

The fascinating germ theories on cancer pathogenesis.

For more than 100 years, the germ theory of cancer, proposing that microorganisms were at the origin of the disease, dominated medicine. Several eminent scientists like Etienne Burnet, Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin, Charles-Louis Malassez, and Francis-Peyton Rous argued on the pathogenesis presenting their theories that implicated cocci, fungi and parasites. The impact of these theories was culmi...

Peyton Rous and his voyages of discovery.