The first malignancy (choriocarcinoma) was cured with chemotherapy at the National Cancer Institute

In 1957, Roy Hertz and Min Chiu Li achieve the first completed cure of a human solid tumor by chemotherapy when they use the drug methotrexate to treat a patient with choriocarcinoma, a rare cancer of the reproductive tissue that mainly affects women.

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Source: American Association for Cancer Research
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