Vincent T. DeVita
Vincent Theodore DeVita (born March 7, 1935 in the Bronx ) is an American physician ( oncology ) and pioneer of cancer chemotherapy.
DeVita graduated from the College of William and Mary with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and medicine from George Washington University School of Medicine with an MD in 1961. He received board degrees in internal medicine (1968), oncology, and hematology. From 1963 he was at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). From 1975 to 1988 he was clinical director of the National Cancer Program and director of the NCI and from 1975 to 1989 he was also a professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine. From 1988 he was a member and from 1988 to 1991 chief physician of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and 1989 to 1993 professor at Cornell University . From 1993 to 2003 he was director of the Yale Cancer Center at Yale University and is Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology at Yale.
He has multiple honorary doctorates (College William & Mary, New York Medical College, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Ohio State University).
He developed highly successful combined chemotherapies for various types of cancer, for example against Hodgkin lymphoma (MOPP) or with George Canellos against breast cancer (CMF, Cyclophosphamide Methotrexate Fluorouracil).
In 1972 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award , the James Ewing Award in 1982 and the Léopold Griffuel Prize in 1980 . He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (Institute of Medicine).
He is the editor of The Cancer Journal .
Fonts
- with Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn: The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable - and How We Can Get There, Sarah Crichton Books 2015.
- with Theodore S. Lawrence, Steven A. Rosenberg (eds.): Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 10th edition, Wolters Kluwer Health / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014.
- with SA Rosenberg: Two hundred years of cancer research, New England J. Med., Volume 366, 2012, pp. 2207-2214.
- with GP Canellos, SA Rosenberg, JW Friedberg, TA Lister: Treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma: a 50-year perspective, J. Clin. Oncol., Vol. 32, 2014, pp. 163-168.
- with AM Eggermont, S. Hellman, DJ Kerr: Clinical cancer research: the past, present and the future, Nat. Rev. Clin. Oncol., Vol. 11, 2014, pp. 663-669.
- with M. Rose, TS Lawrence, SA Rosenberg (Eds.): Oncology in Primary Care. Philadelphia: Lipcott Williams and Wilkens, 2013.
Together with Edward Chu, he publishes the Physicians' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual annually (Jones and Bartlett Learning).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pamela Kalte u. a., American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | DeVita, Vincent T. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DeVita, Vincent Theodore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx |