Hodgkin disease researcher at Stanford University Medical School; author of the 1962 Radiology paper on radical radiotherapy and senior author of the 1985 summary of the Stanford randomised trials
Henry Kaplan
Stanford University Medical School
Henry Kaplan and his colleagues at Stanford are described in Cowan's 2008 history as having played a most important role in consolidating advances in the radiotherapy of Hodgkin disease. He is listed as author of a 1962 Radiology paper on radical radiotherapy of regionally localized disease and as senior author of the 1985 summary of the Stanford randomised trials that began in 1962.
Milestones
Sources
Cowan DH. Vera Peters and the curability of Hodgkin disease. Curr Oncol. 2008;15(5):206-10.
KAPLAN HS. The radical radiotherapy of regionally localized Hodgkin's disease. Radiology. 1962;78:553-61.
Rosenberg SA, Kaplan HS. The evolution and summary results of the Stanford randomized clinical trials of the management of Hodgkin's disease: 1962-1984. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1985;11(1):5-22.