Background
Bisel, Harry Ferree was born on June 17, 1918 in Manor, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Culbertson and Mary Stotler (Ferree) Bisel.
Bisel, Harry Ferree was born on June 17, 1918 in Manor, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Culbertson and Mary Stotler (Ferree) Bisel.
Bachelor of Science, University Pittsburgh, 1939; Doctor of Medicine, University Pittsburgh, 1942.
1918–1994) was an American oncologist. This group of pioneering doctors, through the formation of American Society of Clinical Oncology, is largely credited with the development of modern American clinical oncology. In 1964, Bisel was elected the first president of American Society of Clinical Oncology. He was active in the American Cancer Society and was a consultant to the National Cancer Institute.
There, he received the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1942.
Doctor Bisel did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School. He was one of the first trainees to graduate from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Neoplasia Center.
He was in the United States Navy Reserve from 1942 to 1978, and on active duty from 1943 to 1947. During World World War II, he was a flight surgeon and was awarded three battle stars for action in the Pacific.
Doctor Bisel was the first formally trained oncologist hired by the Mayo Clinic.
He was on staff from 1963 until he retired in 1983. He founded the Mayo Clinic Section of Medical Oncology, and was chairmen from 1963 to 1972. Bisel, (1953). "INCIDENCE AND CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF CARDIAC METASTASES".
Journal of the American Medical Association: The Journal of the American Medical Association 153 (8): 712. doi:10.1001/jama.1953.02940250018005.
ISSN 0098-7484. Bisel High Frequency, Ansfield FJ, Mason JH, Wilson WL (January 1970). "Clinical studies with tubercidin administered by direct intravenous injection".
Cancer Research 30 (1): 76–8. PMID 4917978. Retrieved 2013-2004-09.
Ahmann Doctor of Laws, Hahn RG, Bisel High Frequency (November 1972).
"A comparative study of 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea (National Security Council 79037) and imidazole carboxamide (National Security Council 45388) with vincristine (National Security Council 67574) in the palliation of disseminated malignant melanoma". Cancer Research 32 (11): 2432-2434. PMID 5082592. Retrieved 2013-2004-09.
Ahmann, David L.
Bisel. Hahn, Richard G. Eagan, Robert T. Edmonson, John H. Steinfeld, Jesse L.
Tormey, Douglass C.
Taylor, William F. (2010). "An analysis of a multiple-drug program in the treatment of patients with advanced breast cancer utilizing 5-fluorouracil, cyclophosphamide, and prednisone with or without vincristine". Cancer 36 (6): 1925–1935. doi:10.1002/cncr.2820360601.
ISSN 0008-543X. Ingle JN, Krook Journal of Economics, Green Statens Järnvägar, et al.
(February 1986). "Randomized trial of bilateral oophorectomy versus tamoxifen in premenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer". Journal of Clinical Oncology: Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 4 (2): 178–85.
PMID 3511184. Retrieved 2013-2004-09.
Bisel, (1980). "Management of locally advanced and disseminated breast cancer—chemotherapy". Cancer 46 (S4): 1079–1083. doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19800815)46:4+<1079::Agency for International Development-CNCR2820461337>3.0.CO;2-6.
ISSN 0008-543X.
With Fred Ansfield, Herman Freckman, Arnoldus Goudsmit, Robert Talley, William Wilson, and Jane Wright, was one of the founding members of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (American Society of Clinical Oncology). Bisel was a founding member of American Society of Preventive Oncology as well as the American Association for Cancer Education. He also served as a faculty member of the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and the Mayo Medical School.
Married Sara Louise Clark, October 30, 1954. Children: Jane, Clark, Harold.