On February 12, 1962, 4 years before he was awarded the Nobel Prize, Charles Huggins gave an informal interview to Dr. Willard Goodwin and co-workers at UCLA on how he made one of the greatest discoveries in our field-hormonal therapy for prostate cancer.
In this fascinating story, he tells how he transformed the investigation of what causes a hydrocele into a Nobel Prize winning discovery.
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James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-2101.
Reference: Prostate. 2012 May 1. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1002/pros.22524
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22549876
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