1870-1945 · Associate Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University (1905 byline)
Hugh Hampton Young
The Johns Hopkins University
Author of the 1905 Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital paper presenting a radical operation for prostate cancer that he had carried out in four men, the first with W. S. Halsted's assistance. A history of prostate cancer by Androutsos (2005) dates the first of these operations to 1904.
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Young HH. The early diagnosis and radical cure of carcinoma of the prostate. Being a study of 40 cases and presentation of a radical operation which was carried out in four cases. Bull Johns Hopkins Hosp. 1905;16(175):315-321.
Androutsos G. Carcinoma of the prostate. A historical account. J BUON. 2005;10(1):135-44.