Gilbert Fletcher
Gilbert Hungerford Fletcher (born March 11, 1911 in Paris , † January 11, 1992 in Houston , Texas ) was an American physician ( radiology , oncology ).
Gilbert Fletcher was the son of an American father and a French mother and was a US national. He studied in Paris and Belgium and received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Brussels in 1941. In addition to medicine, he had studied mathematics, civil engineering, physics and ancient languages. In 1942 he went to New York , where he was initially a doctor on an internship in obstetrics and then completed specialist training in radiology at the New York Hospital . From 1945 to 1947 he was Captain of the US Army in Europe and was in London (Fellowship at the Royal Cancer Hospital ), Stockholm (Radiumhemmet) and Paris (Curie Foundation) the following year . From 1948 he was at the MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute of the University of Texas in Houston , where he was head of the radiation therapy department until 1981. There he independently developed a physically based approach to radiation therapy and protocols for radiation therapy for various types of cancer (dose, combination with surgical measures, etc.). He advocated low-dose radiation to counteract the formation of metastases, developed methods to focus the radiation on tumor tissue, carried out the first Cobalt-60 teletherapy in the USA and introduced the Fletcher Suit Declos technique of gynecological brachytherapy . He was also a pioneer in the use of accelerators as X-ray sources (linear accelerator, 22 MeV betatron) and for irradiation with electrons and neutrons (with a hospital's own cyclotron).
He has published over 400 scientific articles and a widely used textbook on radiation therapy. He received gold medals from the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology , the Radiological Society of North America , the American Cancer Society, and the American College of Radiology . In 1975 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in London and was an honorary doctor of the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and the University of Granada .
Fonts
- Textbook of radiotherapy . Lea & Febige, Philadelphia 1966, 3rd edition 1980. ISBN 0812106741 .
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| SURNAME | Fletcher, Gilbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fletcher, Gilbert Hungerford (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American radiologist and oncologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1992 |
| Place of death | Houston , Texas |