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Lawrence Einhorn

Who

Lawrence Einhorn · Science & Medicine

What

Oncologist who developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy that made testicular cancer curable.

When

1942, Dayton, Ohio, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Lawrence Einhorn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Oncologist who developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy that made testicular cancer curable.

How & why

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

Contributions & Sources

Oncologist who developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy that made testicular cancer curable.

1942

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology