Lawrence Einhorn
Lawrence Einhorn · Science & Medicine
Oncologist who developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy that made testicular cancer curable.
1942, Dayton, Ohio, USA
United States
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Lawrence H. Einhorn is an American oncologist at Indiana University who in the 1970s developed the cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy that turned testicular cancer from a usually fatal disease into one cured in more than 90 percent of patients. His regimen became a model for curative solid-tumor chemotherapy. He is identified as Jewish in Jewish biographical references.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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Oncologist who developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy that made testicular cancer curable.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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