HUGGINS, Charles Brenton
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Studies on prostatic cancer. I. The effect of castration, of estrogen, and of androgen injection on serum phosphatases in metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.Cancer Res., 1, 293-97, 1941.Huggins was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. This was the first discovery that showed that cancer could be controlled by chemicals. Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Carcinoma, UROLOGY › Prostate |
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Bilateral adrenalectomy in prostatic cancer; clinical features and urinary excretion of 17-ketosteroids and estrogen.Ann. Surg., 122, 1031-41, 1945.Adrenalectomy for carcinoma of the prostate. Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Carcinoma, UROLOGY › Prostate |