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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HODGES, Clarence Vernard (1914 – 2001)

1914 – 2001

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1941

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Studies on prostatic cancer. I. The effect of castration, of estrogen, and of androgen injection on serum phosphatases in metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.

HUGGINS, Charles Brenton (1901 – 1997) HODGES, Clarence Vernard (1914 – 2001)

In 1966 Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer."