✍ Scribed by J. F. Kaufmann
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He was Africa's principal cancer research worker. H e died in Johannesburg at the age of 49 years after a second open heart operation for chronic rheumatic valvulitis and at the end of a long illness which he endured with courage.
T h e profusion of different races, tribes and groups having differing customs, foods and environment make Africa, and South Africa in particular, a cancer epidemiologist's paradise. George OettlP made the most of these opportunities and applied a towering intellect and Trojan energy to many cancer surveys usually with an etiological bias. H e investigated cancer of the liver, the epidemic of cancer of the esophagus, skin cancer, melanomata, Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphomata as well as cancer in general in Natal and on the Witwatersrand. His discovery of spontaneous cancer of the stomach in the multimammate mouse, Praomys (Mastomys) natalensis, attracted widespread attention. These and related topics were the subjects of some 90 papers, several chapters in books, the Barnard Lecture in 1962 and the Dart Memorial Lecture in 1966.
His academic record is legendary. He won all the important awards, prizes and fellowships for which he was eligible. His work has helped to place before the world the profusion of certain types of malignancy and the great variety of cancer in Africa.
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