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ROUS, Francis Peyton (1879 – 1970)

1879 – 1970

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1910 CE

#2637

A transmissible avian neoplasm (sarcoma of the common fowl).

Original description of the chicken sarcoma (Rous sarcoma). Rous demonstrated that sarcomatous tumors in hens could be transmitted to normal hens by the injection of cell-free filtrates (virus) of the original tumor. …