Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe (17 August 1925 – 27 December 2022) was a British

oncologist Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγκος (''ó ...

, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology, at

Charing Cross Hospital Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approximately five miles east, in central L ...

. Bagshawe worked at St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1946 to 1952, and subsequently became a Research Fellow at

Johns Hopkins Hospital The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was founded in 1889 using money from a bequest of over $7 million (1873 m ...

, in Baltimore, United States, in 1955. From 1960, he was Senior Lecturer in Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and Professor of Medical Oncology there (from 1975 to 1990). Bagshawe served as chair of the

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's Scientific Committee (from 1983 to 1988). Bagshawe was elected a

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(FRS) in 1989, and was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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. Bagshawe died in

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on 27 December 2022, at the age of 97.

Works

*''Choriocarcinoma: the clinical biology of the trophoblast and its tumours'', Edward Arnold, 1969 *(editor) ''Medical oncology: medical aspects of malignant disease'', Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1975, *(editor) ''VP-16: recent advances and future prospects'' Grune & Stratton, 1985

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20170118222001/https://www.labome.org/expert/uk/bagshawe/kenneth-d-bagshawe-943493.html * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bagshawe, Kenneth 1925 births 2022 deaths British medical researchers British oncologists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society