George Thomas Beatson

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George Thomas Beatson

Sir George Thomas Beatson (* 1848 in Trincomalee , Ceylon ; † February 16, 1933 ) was a British doctor and pioneer in the field of gynecological oncology . He developed a new treatment for breast cancer and is called "the father of endocrine cancer treatment". The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Center and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research are named after him.

biography

His father was George Stewart Beatson, Queen Victoria's Honorary Physician and Surgeon General in the Indian Army . Beatson moved to Scotland as a boy and grew up in Campbeltown . He first attended King William's College on the Isle of Man and then Clare College, Cambridge , from which he graduated with a BA in 1871. In 1874 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh . Beatson studied medicine and studied the relationships between ovulation , lactation and cancer . He received his MD in 1878. Beatson then worked for Joseph Lister , who held the chair of surgery.

Around 1878 Beatson moved to Glasgow and opened a medical practice there. He also joined the 1st Lanark Artillery, a unit of the Volunteer Forces that later became the Territorial Army . He has been appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at Glasgow's Western Infirmary . in 1893 he became a consultant surgeon at the Glasgow Cancer and Skin Institution. This was renamed "Glasgow Cancer Hospital" in 1894, Beatson became its director. Beatson started a home care service that provided patients with treatment care services in their own homes.

In 1896 he published a paper entitled On Treatment of Inoperable Cases of Carcinoma of the Mamma: Suggestions for a New Method of Treatment, with Illustrative Cases . ( Treatment of inoperable cases of breast cancer: suggestions for a new treatment modality, with descriptive cases ). In it he presented the treatment he had carried out on three patients with advanced breast cancer , which consisted of removing the ovaries on both sides ( ovariectomy ). Although he stopped performing the operation himself, ovariectomy became the standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer in the years that followed. Beatson is considered the father of anti-hormonal breast cancer treatment because he first described remissions from breast cancer metastasis after this surgery.

In 1948, the Glasgow Cancer Hospital was renamed the Royal Beatson Memorial Hospital in his honor. The institution is now known as the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Center . In 1967, the hospital's research department became the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research. The institute is funded by Cancer Research UK and is located in Bearsden .

literature

  • Ralf Bröer and Wolfgang U. Eckart : The treatment of breast cancer - aspects of the history of therapy from antiquity to the 20th century. In: Manfred Kaufmann (ed.): A century of endocrine therapy for breast cancer. From Beatson to today. Springer Heidelberg, Berlin, New York 1996, pp. 81-93.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e History of the Beatson . NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde . Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  2. ^ A b c d Stockwell, Serena: Classics in Oncology: George Thomas Beatson, MD (1848–1933) . In: CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians . 33, No. 2, March / April 1983, pp. 105-107. doi : 10.3322 / canjclin.33.2.105 .
  3. ^ Beatson, George Thomas . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 1 : Abbey – Challis . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1940, pp. 204 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Beatson, George Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Trincomalee , Ceylon
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1933