biography
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Huggins, Charles B(renton)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–97)
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| biography:
| Oncologist, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He went to the USA to attend Harvard Medical School (1920), then taught surgery at the University of Michigan (1926–7). At the University of Chicago (1927–62), he specialized in clinical urology, and discovered hormonal therapy for prostate cancer, for which he shared the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He became head of Chicago's Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research (1951–69) and Chancellor of Acadia University, Nova Scotia (1972–9). He also made major contributions to studies of bone formation, serum enzyme biochemistry, breast cancer, and treatment of leukaemia. |
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