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D. H. Ross Truscott

History of the Southern Alberta Children's Cancer Program

The story of kids' cancer care in Calgary and Southern Alberta over the past 60 years

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Research efforts to discover cancer therapies for kids dates back to the end of World War II after many experiments with mustard gas and nitrogen mustards. In 1947, Dr. Sydney Farber's group published a paper on the effects of a folic acid antagonist, inducing remission in children with leukemia. Reception of this report in the medical community was unenthusiastic! Most malignant tumours and leukemia were uniformly fatal at that time. Research scientists were not discouraged, however, and with perseverance, successful therapies followed. Our story traces back to the early days in the organization of cancer services for children in Alberta. Th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Truscott, Kathryn M (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-228-84748-9
  • EAN: 9780228847489
  • Produktnummer: 38398164
  • Verlag: Tellwell Talent
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 180 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 396 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 396

Über den Autor


Ross Truscott is a retired pediatrician who practiced in Calgary, Alberta, from 1962 to 1995, and part time after that until 2011. He has a long-standing interest in pediatric oncology and worked to establish a children's cancer program for Calgary and Southern Alberta.He grew up on a family farm near Alameda, Saskatchewan, and attended the University of Saskatchewan for pre-medical studies and his first two years of medicine. He graduated with his MD from the University of Alberta in 1955. He completed his pediatric training at Vancouver General and the Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, and pediatric pathology training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He and his wife, Marilyn, raised a family of five children-two sons and three daughters-and they were blessed with eight grandchildren. Marilyn passed away from cancer in 2011.

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