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Saul Rosenberg

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Saul Rosenberg · Science & Medicine

What

Oncologist, advances in treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma

When

1927, United States — 2022, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Saul Rosenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Oncologist, advances in treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma

How & why

Saul A. Rosenberg was an American oncologist at Stanford University who, with radiologist Henry Kaplan, transformed the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma by combining radiation and chemotherapy. He also pioneered randomized clinical trials in cancer, helping raise Hodgkin lymphoma cure rates above 90 percent. Rosenberg was Jewish and taught at Stanford Medicine for more than fifty years.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science

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Oncologist, advances in treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma

1927

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science