1901-1997 · Surgeon, Cancer researcher
Charles B. Huggins
University of Chicago; Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research
Surgeon and cancer researcher, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1901. He took his medical degree at Harvard, joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1927 and became Professor of Surgery there, and from 1951 directed the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research. With Clarence Hodges he published studies of castration, estrogen and androgen injection in metastatic prostate cancer in 1941. He shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Peyton Rous for discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer, and died in 1997.
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Nobel Foundation. Charles B. Huggins - Biographical. From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972. NobelPrize.org. Web page read 2026-10-20.
NobelPrize.org. Charles B. Huggins - Facts. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966. Nobel Prize Outreach. Web page read 2026-10-20.
Huggins C, Hodges CV. Studies on prostatic cancer: I. The effect of castration, of estrogen and of androgen injection on serum phosphatases in metastatic carcinoma of the prostate. 1941. J Urol. 2002;168(1):9-12. Originally published in Cancer Res. 1941;1:293-297.