Samuel M. Seidlin

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Samuel M. Seidlin (born May 1, 1895 in the Russian Empire , † January 2, 1955 in New York City ) was an American endocrinologist and nuclear medicine specialist .

Seidlin graduated from Columbia University with a medical degree in 1923 . In 1943 he founded the Medical Physics Research Laboratory at Montefiore Hospital in New York City and the Clinic for Endocrinology there. From 1950 he worked as an advisor to the medical department of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies .

From 1943 Seidlin carried out the first radioiodine therapy for metastatic thyroid cancer . His patient "B. B. “was regarded as incurably ill with his tumor disease and doomed to die. Under treatment with a mixture of 130 iodine and 131 iodine, which ran for several years, the lung metastases disappeared , the bone metastases no longer increased in number or size. In 1946 Seidlin reported on the " miracle healing ". The patient died in 1955 when the tumor dedifferentiated and no longer stored iodine.

For the young branch of medicine that deals with the use of radioactive substances, Seidlin suggested the name isotopology . Nuclear medicine finally prevailed .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b archives of Columbia University (accessed January 6, 2010)
  2. ↑ RS Benua: Introduction to "Radioactive iodine therapy: effect on functioning metastases of adenocarcinoma of the thyroid" by Seidlin, Marinelli, and Oshry. In: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians . Volume 40, Number 5, 1990 Sep-Oct, pp. 297-298, ISSN  0007-9235 . PMID 2118413 .
  3. ↑ Seidlin SM, Marinelli LD, Oshry E: Radioactive iodine therapy: effect on functioning metastases of adenocarcinoma of the thyroid. JAMA 1946; 132: 838
  4. ^ Siegel E: The beginnings of radioiodine therapy of metastatic thyroid carcinoma: a memoir of Samuel M. Seidlin, MD (1895-1955) and his celebrated patient . In: Cancer Biother Radiopharm . 14, No. 2, April 1999, pp. 71-9. doi : 10.1089 / cbr.1999.14.71 . PMID 10850290 .
  5. ↑ Rebecca Sajdak. Nuclear Medicine - What's in a Name. Society of Nuclear Medicine (PDF, 258 kB) at ccsnm.org; Retrieved October 6, 2012

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SURNAME Seidlin, Samuel M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American endocrinologist and nuclear medicine doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1955
Place of death New York City