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Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology 5/2018

01-05-2018 | Health Services Research and Global Oncology

Denis Parsons Burkitt, an Overlooked Surgical Oncologist

Author: Blake Cady, MD

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 5/2018

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2018 is the 25th anniversary of the death of a remarkable surgeon, Denis Parsons Burkitt. While most remembered for ‘Burkitt’s Lymphoma’, he was also the first to define and popularize the relationship between diet and disease. As a colonial and missionary clinical surgeon in Uganda, far removed from laboratories and research grants, he was exposed to uniquely different disease patterns. Based on his inquiring mind, his ability to think ‘outside the box’, with a willingness to address big questions in medicine, he was instrumental in opening entirely new fields of inquiry, research, and concepts of disease. …
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Metadata
Title
Denis Parsons Burkitt, an Overlooked Surgical Oncologist
Author
Blake Cady, MD
Publication date
01-05-2018
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 5/2018
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-018-6386-9

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