The Lesson of Molecular Oncology and Prostate Cancer: Celebrating 50 years of the Nobel Award to P. Rous and C. Huggins

In the fast-pace of Cancer Research (CR) activities, high throughput technologies and accumulation of data by NGS and –OMICS in general, some milestones in our understanding of cancer may easily skip our attention. This year marks 50 years from the assignment of two Nobel Prizes for CR in 1966: to Peyton Rous and Charles Huggins [1-4]. Some reflections may be worthier, since they also impinge on today’s state of affair in CR. First of all, the two certainly appeared as an “odd couple” in 1966 [5]. A celebrated virologist and immunologist from the Rockefeller University (Institute at that time), the work of Rous -87 at that time- seemed to have little to share with the clinical breakthroughs just realized by the Canadian endocrinologist Huggins at the University of Chicago. Although coming from widely different areas of medicine (microbiology and surgery) they both knew and highly respected each other [2]. Furthermore, these two CR giants certainly overlapped in their belief that research intuition and scientific ingenuity and discovery would be at the basis of any further development in science