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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HUGGINS, Charles Brenton (1901 – 1997)

1901 – 1997

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1941 CE

#4276

Studies on prostatic cancer. I. The effect of castration, of estrogen, and of androgen injection on serum phosphatases in metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.

HUGGINS, Charles Brenton (1901 – 1997) HODGES, Clarence Vernard (1914 – 2001)

In 1966 Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer."

1945 CE

#4276.1

Bilateral adrenalectomy in prostatic cancer; clinical features and urinary excretion of 17-ketosteroids and estrogen.

HUGGINS, Charles Brenton (1901 – 1997) SCOTT, William Wallace (1913 – 2000)

Adrenalectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.