Charles

Charles Brenton Huggins

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American physiologist

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Charles Brenton Huggins
Biology
#159
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#286
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Physiology
#3
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#12
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According to Wikipedia, Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American physician, physiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. This was the first discovery that showed that cancer could be controlled by chemicals.

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