Reginald Murley

Sir Reginald Sydney Murley KBE TD FRCS (2 August 1916 – 2 October 1997) was a British surgeon[1] who was President of the Royal College of Surgeons.[2]

Reginald Murley was a breast cancer biological predeterminist, alongside Maurice Black and Neil McKinnon in the 1950s—recognizing that breast cancer is a systemic (not local) disease at the outset. Also a pioneer of breast conservation (vs radical mastectomy) in Britain, contemporary of George Crile Jr. [reference: ‘The Breast Cancer Wars’, Barron H Lerner MD, 2001].

References

  1. "Murley, Sir Reginald Sydney - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". rcseng.ac.uk.
  2. MURLEY, Sir Reginald (Sydney)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 Dec 2013


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