Clarence Hodges
Huggins's co-author on the 1941 hormone studies
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- IX. The Gland That Stands Before
What the film says
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With Huggins in 1941, castrated men with advanced prostate cancer or gave them oestrogen, and followed the fall in acid phosphatase.
On the timeline
- 1941: Huggins and Hodges report that castration or oestrogen lowers, and androgen raises, serum phosphatases in metastatic prostate cancer (Cancer Research). timeline
- 1941: Huggins, Stevens and Hodges report the effects of castration on advanced prostate cancer (Archives of Surgery). probable timeline