Background
Fitzpatrick was born on July 15, 1948. His father was a prominent Dublin lawyer and his mother"s family had a strong medical history.
Fitzpatrick was born on July 15, 1948. His father was a prominent Dublin lawyer and his mother"s family had a strong medical history.
Before going to University College Dublin, Fitzpatrick travelled a lot. In 1971 he qualified in Medicine of University College Dublin. Fitzpatrick was among the first in Ireland and Britain to embrace the surgical removal of the prostate if prostate cancer was still confined to the gland, and successfully cured many mentor
In the past decade, Fitzpatrick worked on developing two second-line treatments, enzalutamide and abiraterone, which both have shown to extend the lives of men whose cancer has relapsed after initial hormone therapy with only modest side effects.
He was also involved in the introduction of taxane-based chemotherapy to use for men whose cancer had spread, and were no longer responding to first-resort hormonal therapies. Fitzpatrick was emeritus professor of surgery at the University College Dublin School of Medicine & Medical Science and Head of Research at the Irish Cancer Society
On 14 May 2014, Fitzpatrick was taken ill in his own gym at home, and died of Subarachnoid haemorrhage.