Warren Henry Cole

Warren Henry Cole was an American surgeon who lived from 1898 to 1990 and is remembered as a pioneer in adjunctive treatments for surgical cancer patients, meaning care given alongside an operation rather than the operation itself. In 1924 he worked with Evarts Ambrose Graham on a way of making the gall bladder visible on X-ray films by giving a contrast medium, a method later used to diagnose gall bladder disease. Born in Clay Center, Kansas, he took his medical degree at Washington University School of Medicine and taught there for several years before leaving in 1936 to become a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, a post he held for thirty years. From 1959 to 1960 he served as president of the American Cancer Society.