title: Racial variation and cancer: a historical approach.
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.
authors.affiliation: University Institute of the History of Medicine and Public Health, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karamanou
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tekiner
authors.forename: Theodoros G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Papaioannou
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Konstantopoulos
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Androutsos
mesh_terms: D005006:Ethnicity / Q000266:history*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000266:history*; D063505:Racism / Q000266:history*