Amy Hempel she is credited with inventing

she is credited with inventing a groundbreaking technique that involved using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells

Introducing the use of methotrexate in the treatment of skin and breast cancer

in 1949 de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex

One of the biggest breakthroughs in cancer treatment was the development of chemotherapy in the 1940’s

Amy Hempel she is credited with inventingHempel used to be in that category known as a "writer's writer" critically praised, loved devotedly by fellow authors, and often taught (particularly her near perfect story, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried") but not widely read. In fact, several of her early collections of stories were out of print and difficult to find. But with the publication of her Collected Stories a few years ago, there's now no excuse for not reading her. Hempel is