Medicine Atlas

How Healing Is Practiced
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Healer

Charles Brenton Huggins

Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists

Charles Brenton Huggins (1901 to 1997) was a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist. He discovered that sex hormones influence the growth of the prostate gland and developed hormone therapy for prostate cancer, later extending his hormone research to breast cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Peyton Rous, for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer.

In the Other Atlases
Sources
Wikipedia: Charles Brenton Huggins
Wikimedia FoundationView the Source
Wikidata: Charles Brenton Huggins
  • Wikidata Q155371, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata P569 (w-bbfill-medicine3-0926)
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.