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PROF. CHARLES B. HUQGINS, professor of surgery in the University of Chicago, has been awarded a two thousand dollar prize given by Dr. Charles L. Mayer and administered by the National Science Fund of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The award was offered for the “most outstanding contribution made during 1942 to present-day knowledge of factors affecting the growth of animal cells with particular reference to human cancer, and as a new type of prize for the advancement of fundamental scientific research administered under a new type of philanthropic foundation”. The award was made to Prof. Huggins for his studies of the human prostate, with special relation to the cancers taking origin from this gland. He has shown that certain hormones which regulate the normal activities of prostatic cells have a marked influence as well on many of the cancers that are derived from them. By the utilization of this knowledge he has been enabled to control the growth of the cancers and of such secondary tumours as may already have formed in distant organs. These discoveries have large theoretical as well as practical implications.
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U.S. National Academy of Sciences First Charles L. Mayer Award. Nature 151, 637 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151637c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151637c0