CHARLES HUGGINS


Meaning of CHARLES HUGGINS in English

n. Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-1997), Canadian-born American physiologist and surgeon and cancer researcher who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966 (together with Peyton Rous) for his discovery that hormones could be used to control the spread of and treat some cancers (such as cancer of the prostate)

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