Gianni Bonadonna

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Gianni Bonadonna (born July 28, 1934 in Milan ; † September 6, 2015 there ) was an Italian doctor ( oncology ).

Gianni Bonadonna received his Laureate Degree in Medicine from the University of Milan in 1959 and was a postdoctoral fellow from 1961 to 1964 in the USA at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York . On his return he was at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT) in Milan, where he stayed for the rest of his career and was director of the medical oncology department.

In 1972 he found chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma ( ABVD scheme ) and in the 1970s he developed a successful adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer (with cyclophosphamide , methotrexate , fluorouracil ). He was also instrumental in launching controlled clinical trials in oncology in Italy.

Bonadonna conducted clinical studies on the chemotherapy drugs (cytostatics) doxorubicin , bleomycin and epirubicin . He is the author of several books, including life after a stroke and in 2006 a book in which seriously ill doctors write about reform ideas in the healthcare system.

In 1993 he received the Kettering Prize and he received the Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Prize . In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Turin. In 1999 he received the first Umberto Veronesi Award for the Future Fight Against Breast Cancer.

Fonts

  • Appuntamento col Padreterno, Milan: Montedit, 2014
  • Una guerra da vincere, Milan: Guerini e Associati, 2010
  • Medicina oncologica, Milan: Elsevier Masson, 2007
  • Coraggio, ricominciamo. Tornare alla vita dopo un ictus: un medico racconta, 2005
  • with Sandro Bartoccioni: Dall'altra parte, BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2006
  • La cura possibile - Nascita e progressi dell'oncologia, Milan: Cortina, 2001
  • Medicina eterna, Milan: Rizzoli, 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Italian successes in breast cancer therapy, Der Spiegel, March 1, 1976
  2. ↑ Bonadonna et al. a., Combination Chemotherapy as an Adjuvant Treatment in Operable Breast Cancer, New England J. Medicine, Volume 294, 1976, pp. 405-441, digitized, first page
  3. ^ European Institute of Oncology
personal data
SURNAME Bonadonna, Gianni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor (oncology)
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2015
Place of death Milan