Racial variation and cancer: a historical approach

Karamanou M., TEKİNER H., Papaioannou T. G., Konstantopoulos K., Androutsos G.

JOURNAL OF BUON, vol.21, no.6, pp.1568-1570, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Editorial Material
  • Volume: 21 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF BUON
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1568-1570
  • Keywords: cancer, ethnic groups, history of oncology, racism
  • Erciyes University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

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.