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Francis C. Wood

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Computational Biology

#353

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Biochemistry

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Francis C. Wood's Degrees

PhD Cancer Biology University of California, San Francisco
Masters Biochemistry Stanford University
Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Francis Carter Wood was an American cancer researcher, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and radium for treatment of cancer. Wood was the founder and the founding director of the Crocker Institute for Cancer Research.

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Francis C. Wood's Published Works

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Metabolic Role of Glucose: A Source of Glyceride-glycerol in Controlling the Release of Fatty Acids by Adipose Tissue (1960) (75)
III. The Mixed Tumors of the Salivary Glands. (39)
XII. Blastomycosis of the Spine: Double Lesion: Two Operations: Recovery. (1908) (34)
MAGIC AND MEDICINE (1915) (17)
DIAGNOSTIC INCISION OF TUMORS (1919) (16)
THE EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY OF CANCER (1925) (16)
Chemical and Microscopical Diagnosis (1910) (16)
THE ACTION OF RADIUM ON TRANSPLANTED TUMORS OF ANIMALS (1915) (15)
LETHAL DOSE OF ROENTGEN RAYS FOR CANCER CELLS (1920) (13)
Some Fundamental Aspects of the Cancer Problem (1938) (12)
IMMUNITY IN CANCER (1925) (11)
Need for Cancer Morbidity Statistics. (11)
POISONING BY NITRIC OXID FUMES (1912) (10)
USE OF COLLOIDAL LEAD IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER (1926) (10)
THE SUCCESSFUL REMOVAL OF A SADDLE EMBOLUS OF THE AORTA, 11 DAYS AFTER ACUTE CORONARY OCCLUSION. (1941) (10)
Further Studies in the Effectiveness of Different Wave Lengths of Radiation (1925) (10)
Computation curves for compressible fluid problems (1950) (8)
EFFECTS OF COMBINED RADIATION AND LEAD THERAPY (1927) (8)
Observations on pericardial disease. (1953) (8)
Volume of Injection and Concentration of the Carcinogenic Chemical as Factors in the Initiation of the Malignant Process and Their Bearing on the Somatic Mutation Hypothesis (1940) (8)
No Immunity Produced by Inoculating Irradiated Tumor Tissue (1925) (7)
CANCER AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (1916) (6)
ROENTGEN TREATMENT OF UTERINE FIBROMYOMAS (1930) (6)
THE VIABILITY OF THE PNEUMOCOCCUS AFTER DRYING: A STUDY OF ONE OF THE FACTORS IN PNEUMONIC INFECTION (1905) (6)
Cardiac problems in the surgical patient. (1949) (5)
Delafield and Prudden's Textbook of Pathology (1936) (4)
THE NONCARCINOGENIC NATURE OF PURIFIED MINERAL OILS (1930) (4)
THE DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER (1930) (3)
The action of radium on growing cells (1914) (3)
Cancer Biology and Radiation1 (1928) (3)
HEMOCHROMATOSIS IN A METAL WORKER: CASE REPORT WITH AUTOPSY AND A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE (1929) (2)
A Biological Ionization Chamber (1929) (2)
THE RELATION OF PATHOLOGY TO PRACTICE (1919) (2)
II. Uretero-Ureteral Anastomosis for Traumatism. (1899) (2)
The effect of phlorhizin on tumors in animals (1915) (1)
The Detection of Small Quantities of Lead in the Tissues (1930) (1)
LEAD IN URINARY CALCULI (1941) (1)
The Action of Colloidal Lead on Animal Tumours (1)
Therapy with Long Wave Length X-rays (Grenz Rays)1 (1931) (1)
THE TREATMENT OF CANCER WITH LEAD. (1926) (1)
The Effect of Phloridzin on Tumors in Animals (1)
Palliative Radiotherapy of Malignant Growths (1931) (1)
ANIMAL TUMORS AS THERAPEUTIC REAGENTS (1931) (1)
The Principles of Radiation Treatment (1931) (0)
Recent Cancer Therapy. (1923) (0)
Tolerance of Certain Cardiac Patients for Various Recumbent Positions (1938) (0)
BOVERI ON CANCER. (1927) (0)
Radiation Therapy: The Biologic Fundamentals of Radiation Therapy . By Friedrich Ellinger. Preface by Maurice Lenz. English translation by Reuben Gross. New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc. $5.00. (1942) (0)
The Improvements in the Ability of the Medical Profession to Treat Cancer. (1936) (0)
Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting. (1949) (0)
Responsibility in Radiotherapy (1941) (0)
The Problem of the Possible Induction of Immunity in Cancer. (0)
THE FALLING NECROPSY RATE (1919) (0)
The Contributions of Experimental Studies to Radiotherapy (1930) (0)
Cancer : Clinical and Experimental Aspects (1941) (0)
SHORT WAVELENGTH RADIATION: PRESENT STANDARDS FOR MEASURING QUANTITY AND QUALITY (1931) (0)
ACTION OF AUTOLYSIN ON MOUSE TUMORS (1916) (0)
The Wesley M. Carpenter Lecture: Fundamental Research in Cancer. (1932) (0)
Annual Graduate Fortnight. the Problem of Aging and of Old Age, October 1 to 14, 1928: X-Ray and Radium in the Problem of Old Age (0)
PROTECTION OF PATIENTS AND OPERATORS FROM X-RAYS (1931) (0)
THE SUCCESSFUL REMOVAL OF A SADDLE EMBOLUS OF THE AORTA, ELEVEN DAYS AFTER ACUTE CORONARY OCCLUSION (1941) (0)
IV. The Mixed Tumors of the Salivary Glands. (0)
Pan-American Union Against Cancer (1941) (0)
RHEUMATIC PERITONITIS (1931) (0)
The Trend in Radiotherapy of Cancer (1938) (0)
A Rapid Stain for Frozen Sections (1910) (0)
A Review of the advances in our knowledge and treatment of cancer in the last thirty years (0)
Medical library cooperation in New York City. (1958) (0)
LABORATORY: RECENT DISCOVERIES CONCERNING CANCER. (1926) (0)
Mycogone perniciosa (bubble disease). (1960) (0)
Cancer. What Everybody Should Know About It (1932) (0)
PAN-AMERICAN UNION AGAINST CANCER. (1941) (0)

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