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A Nobel Prize for a cancer finding that later work reversed

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Johannes Fibiger (Wikipedia)
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In 1952, they repeated Fibiger's experiments using advanced microscopy and histology, and conclusively demonstrated that the tumours due to G. neoplasticum in rats were non-cancerous, and that the tumours were primarily due to vitamin A deficiency.
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