James Holland
James Holland · Science & Medicine
Oncologist who pioneered combination chemotherapy for leukemia
1925, Morristown, New Jersey, USA — 2018, New York, USA
United States
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James Frederick Holland was an oncologist at Roswell Park and later Mount Sinai who pioneered combination chemotherapy, showing that leukemia responded when several drugs were given together rather than singly. His trials helped turn childhood acute leukemia from a near-certain death sentence into a frequently curable disease, and he won the Lasker Award in 1972. His father was Jewish, giving him documented Jewish paternal ancestry.
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Oncologist who pioneered combination chemotherapy for leukemia
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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