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Charles Brenton Huggins was born on September 22, 1901, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was the son of Charles Edward and Bessie (Spencer) Huggins.
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Charles Brenton Huggins won the Nobel prize in 1966 for his extensive work in cancer research. He has spent fifty years at the laboratory bench exploring the nature of this disease in an attempt to understand and control it. In this volume, based almost exclusively on experiments conducted over the past twenty years at the University of Chicago, is both the record of Huggins's own research and, in Huggins's words, "a do-it-yourself guide for cancer research workers." Written simply and clearly so that the experiments can be easily reproduced, the book presents Huggins's experiments in the induction of breast cancer and leukemia in rodents. It also describes the methods he discovered to prevent cancer and to cure many of the cancers he has been able to induce. Although most of the material concerns breast cancer and leukemia, research on other kinds of tumors is also described. Charles Brenton Huggins won the Nobel prize in 1966 for his extensive work in cancer research. He has spent fifty years at the laboratory bench exploring the nature of this disease in an attempt to understand and control it. In this volume, based almost exclusively on experiments conducted over the past twenty years at the University of Chicago, is both the record of Huggins's own research and, in Huggins's words, "a do-it-yourself guide for cancer research workers." Written simply and clearly so that the experiments can be easily reproduced, the book presents Huggins's experiments in the induction of breast cancer and leukemia in rodents. It also describes the methods he discovered to prevent cancer and to cure many of the cancers he has been able to induce. Although most of the material concerns breast cancer and leukemia, research on other kinds of tumors is also described.
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Charles Brenton Huggins was born on September 22, 1901, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was the son of Charles Edward and Bessie (Spencer) Huggins.
Huggins graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1920. He also went on to study medicine at Harvard Medical School and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1924. During his long career, Huggins received a great number of honorary degrees from different universities.
Huggins started his career as an Intern in surgery at University of Michigan in 1924. In 2 years he became an instructor surgery and in 1927 went to the University of Chicago. He was promoted to the position of assistant professor in 1929, and in 1933, he worked as an associate professor. Since 1936, he was a professor surgery at University of Chicago.
In 1951, Huggins founded Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research, where he worked till 1969. He was also a William B. Ogden Distinguished Service professor at University of Chicago since 1962.
In 1972, Huggins became a chancellor of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scoti. He retired in 1979.
Huggins is remembered for his work in cancer research. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1966 along with virologist F. Peyton Rous. He purported the theory that certain forms of cancer, primarily prostate and breast cancer, could be halted with the use of hormones and other chemicals.
From 1951 to 1969 Charles served as director of the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research. Huggins is credited as the author of nearly three hundred articles and books in his field, including Experimental Leukemia and Mammary Cancer: Induction, Prevention, and Cure.
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1979Charles B. Huggins was a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society.
Huggins married Margaret Wellman on July 29, 1927. They had 2 children: Charles Edward and Emily Wellman Huggins Fine.
