ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, January 15, 1997 TAG: 9701150077
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Dr. Charles B. Huggins, who won a Nobel Prize for discoveries that helped open the era of drug therapy for cancer and provide underpinnings of the modern treatment of prostate and breast cancer, died Sunday at his home in Chicago. He was 95.
In 1941, Huggins published three papers showing a relationship between the hormonal system and normal function of the prostate gland. By showing the competition between male and female hormones, and then selectively blocking their actions, Huggins achieved initial successes in treating cancer.
In the 1950s, Huggins went on to work on breast cancer. In 1966 he became the second surgeon to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
- The New York Times
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