“Tumors destroy man in a unique and appalling way, as flesh of his own flesh which has somehow been rendered proliferative, rampant, predatory and ungovernable.”So began Peyton Rous’s 1966 Nobel Lecture, the year he won the prize in Medicine, just four years before he died, and 56 years after a woman brought him the chicken that would set his scientific career in motion.Rous was working at the Rockefeller Institute (before the name was changed to Rockefeller University) when a woman, her hands slightly arthritic, came in carrying a Plymouth Barred Rock hen. Of course this was no ordinary fowl: a large tumor was sticking out of its belly, making the hen look as if it had swallowed its own egg. And it was a turning point for cancer research.It turned out that this tumor became the first scientifically documented transmissible avian sarcoma.
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