biography
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| lived:
| (1903–73)
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| biography:
| Oncologist, born in Buffalo, New York, USA. He began as a pathologist at the Children's Hospital in Boston and taught at Harvard (1929). His life's work revolved around cancer therapy, research, and patient care. In 1947 he founded the Children's Cancer Research Foundation (now, in his honour, the Dana–Farber Cancer Center) and achieved the first remissions in childhood leukaemia by using chemotherapy. |
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