Home›Articles›The Sixteen Children Who Proved a Drug Could Fight CancerArticleThe Sixteen Children Who Proved a Drug Could Fight CancerConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ConnectionsArticle OnChemotherapy, Treatments Well-attested SourcesSidney Farber (Wikipedia)Father of modern chemotherapy, Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia sectionQuote, Father of modern chemotherapy, Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia sectionIn 1947, Farber conducted a clinical trial on aminopterin on 16 children, 10 of whom eventually achieved temporary remission.View the SourceMedicine Atlas Original Articlestier 1Methotrexate (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationHistory sectionQuote, History sectionclinical use of aminopterin was thus abandoned in favor of methotrexate.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.