Burchenal, Joseph H.

Burchenal, Joseph H.
▪ 2007

      American oncologist, (b. Dec. 21, 1912, Milford, Del.—d. March 8, 2006, Hanover, N.H.), pioneered the use of drugs, or chemotherapy, for the treatment of cancer. His experiments and clinical trials helped establish several chemical agents as anticancer drugs. One of the first chemotherapies that he successfully developed, in the early 1950s, was the use of the chemical compound 6-mercaptopurine for treating children with leukemia. For his contributions during the 1960s in developing a chemotherapy for Burkitt lymphoma, a type of cancer most commonly found in African children, he was a corecipient (1972) of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. In 1996 the American Association for Cancer Research established an annual award in his name to honour outstanding clinical researchers in the cancer field.

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