Victor Despeignes | |
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| Born | 14 February 1866 Lyons, France |
| Died | 30 July 1937 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | First to use radiation therapy to treat cancer |
Victor Despeignes (14 February 1866 – 30 July 1937 )[1][2] was a pioneer in radiation oncology. He was possibly the first person to use X-rays to treat cancer, which he did in July 1896 for a patient with stomach cancer.[1][3] He was also the first physician to publish a paper on radiation therapy, in 1896, dealing with that case.[4][5] This attempt was less than a year after the publication of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen.[6]
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- ^ "Les origines lyonnaises de la radiothérapie anticancéreuse". Et si on en parlait (in French). Université de Lyon. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
- ^ Sgantzos, M; Tsoucalas, G; Laios, K; Androutsos, G (2014). "The physician who first applied radiotherapy, Victor Despeignes, on 1896" (PDF). Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 17 (1): 45–6. PMID 24563880.
- ^ Webb, S. (2001). Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy. CRC Press. p. 353. ISBN 978-1-4200-3411-0.
- ^ Lemoigne, Yves; Caner, Alessandra, eds. (2011). Radiation Protection in Medical Physics. Springer. p. 24. ISBN 978-9400702479.
- ^ Foray, Nicolas (November 2016). "Victor Despeignes, the Forgotten Pioneer of Radiation Oncology". International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 96 (4): 717–721. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.07.019. PMID 27788944.