George Beatson
Sir George Thomas Beatson (* 1848 in Trincomalee, Ceylon, † February 16, 1933 ) was a British physician and pioneer in the field of gynecological oncology. He developed a new treatment for breast cancer and is " the father of endocrine cancer treatment " called. The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research are named after him.
Biography
His father was George Stewart Beatson, Honorary Physician to Queen Victoria and Surgeon General of the Indian Army. Beatson moved as a boy over to Scotland and grew up in Campbeltown. He attended King William 's College on the Isle of Man and then the Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA in 1871. In 1874 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh. Beatson studied medicine and examined the relationship between ovulation, lactation and cancer. He earned his doctorate as MD in 1878. Beatson then worked at Joseph Lister, who held the chair of surgery.
To Beatson 1878 moved over to Glasgow and opened a medical practice there. He also appeared in the 1st Lanark Artillery, a unit of the Volunteer Forces, which became the Territorial Army later. He was appointed assistant professor of surgery at Glasgow's Western Infirmary. in 1893 he became consulting surgeon at the " Glasgow Cancer and Skin Institution ". This was renamed in 1894 in " Glasgow Cancer Hospital ", Beatson was its director. Beatson founded a home care service, the patients supplied with treatment care services in their own homes.
In 1896 he published a work 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 of a new treatment method, with descriptive cases). In it, he presented the check carried out treatment of three patients with advanced breast cancer who was the mutual removal of the ovaries ( oophorectomy ). Although he then himself no longer carried out the operation, ovariectomy has become a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer in the following years. Beatson is regarded as the father of anti- hormonal treatment of breast cancer, because he first described remissions of metastases of breast cancer after this operation.
In 1948 it was renamed in honor of the Glasgow Cancer Hospital in " Royal Beatson Memorial Hospital ." The institution is known as the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre today. In 1967, the research department of the hospital for " Beatson Institute for Cancer Research " was. The Institute is funded by Cancer Research UK and is situated in Bearsden.