Channing Chamberlain Simmons (1877–1953)
✍ Scribed by Joseph C. Aub
- Book ID
- 101322130
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1954
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 341 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
HANNXNG CHAMBERLAIN SIMMONS died on C August 15, 1953, at the age of 76, one of that group of surgeons who were devoted to the cancer problem throughout this century. Graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1899, he became a surgical house pupil at the Massachusetts General Hospital and, in 1902, became an Assistant Surgeon there. In 1904 he began four years of work as Assistant Surgical Pathologist under J. Homer Wright and William F. Whitney. The knowledge acquired in those years influenced his whole professional future and helped make him the excellent diagnostician of neoplastic disease in general and of bone tumors and infections in particular. He was one of those enthusiasts who helped make the first of the registries possible, the Codman bone-tumor registry. The im-provements in surgical therapy of cancer, the pathological grading of tumors, the drive for early diagnosis and therapy-these have been large factors in improving the treatment of cancer since 1900-and these were the problems that engrossed Dr. Simmons and to which he dedicated his life.
After he retired from the hospital staff he continued to serve the Massachusetts Department of Public Health as Chairman of its Advisory Cancer Committee and as Assistant Director of the Division of Cancer.
His professional life was dedicated throughout to improving the results in cancer therapy. And always he was a lovable but lonesome, diffident gentleman.