There are various types of chemicals that people have found to be helpful in treating cancers. The first chemotherapy drug was discovered in the 1960s and was initially used to treat lymphoma patients. During the war effort, an accident occurred in the production of mustard-gas-like agents, and researchers found that patients affected by the agent had mostly dead lymphoid and myeloid cells in their blood (these are a type of white blood cell precursors).

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