Richard Margolese

Richard Margolese, MD, CM FRCS (C), (born 30 July 1935)[1] is a Canadian scientist and has been a leader of multiple research studies that have changed the standard treatment for early-stage breast cancer.[2] He is a native of Montreal, Canada.[1]

Richard Margolese
Alma materDartmouth College
AwardsOrder of Canada

He was a principal investigator and member of the Executive Committee[3] of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project, which, in a series of studies demonstrated the effectiveness of lumpectomy, in combination with radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and/or hormonal therapy, over radical mastectomy as an effective treatment for many breast cancer patients.[4][5][6] He is a past President of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, was National Director of the Canadian Cancer Society and was awarded the Order of Canada as one of Canada’s premier oncologists.[7]

Margolese also authored studies which compared the effectiveness of treatment options demonstrating their benefits over previous options.[8]

Education

Margolese attended Westmount High School, in Westmount, Quebec. He then earned an AB at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. He returned to Montreal to complete his medical degree at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine.[1]

Career

Margolese has been a professor at McGill University where he has held the Herbert Black Chair in Surgical Oncology.[3] and was the original director of the department of Surgical Oncology at McGill University's Jewish General Hospital.[9]

He has contributed to several medical reference books[10][11] and journals.[12] Early in his career, he authored a low-fat cookbook “A Doctor’s Eat Heart-y Guide for Good Health and Long Life.”[13][14]

Honours
  • The Order of Canada in 1997[7]
  • The O. Harold Warwick Prize in 1994[15]
  • The R.M. Taylor Medal and Award from the Canadian Cancer Society in 2000[16]
  • The Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Surgical Breast and Bowel Project in 2006[16]
  • 45th Annual André Aisenstadt Memorial Clinical Day held in honor of Richard Margolese[17]


References
  1. "Jewish General Hospital » Dr. Richard Margolese: A warrior in the battle against breast cancer". jgh.ca. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  2. "Guideline 3: Mastectomy or lumpectomy? The choice of operation for clinical stages I and II breast cancer [Supplement, CMAJ - Feb. 10, 1998]". collectionscanada.ca. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  3. "McGill Reporter". reporter-archive.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  4. Fisher, Bernard; Bauer, Madeline; Margolese, Richard; Poisson, Roger; Pilch, Yosef; Redmond, Carol; Fisher, Edwin; Wolmark, Norman; Deutsch, Melvin (March 14, 1985). "Five-Year Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Total Mastectomy and Segmental Mastectomy with or without Radiation in the Treatment of Breast Cancer". New England Journal of Medicine. 312 (11): 665–673. doi:10.1056/NEJM198503143121101. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 3883167.
  5. Fisher, Bernard; Anderson, Stewart; Bryant, John; Margolese, Richard G.; Deutsch, Melvin; Fisher, Edwin R.; Jeong, Jong-Hyeon; Wolmark, Norman (October 17, 2002). "Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial Comparing Total Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and Lumpectomy plus Irradiation for the Treatment of Invasive Breast Cancer". New England Journal of Medicine. 347 (16): 1233–1241. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa022152. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 12393820.
  6. "Potential Practice Change in Management of DCIS".
  7. "Order of Canada". archive.gg.ca. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  8. "Anastrozole May Be 'Preferable Option' to Tamoxifen for Treatment of DCIS | ASCO Annual Meeting". am.asco.org. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  9. "Top Takeaways from ASCO: Breast Cancer". www.healio.com. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  10. Margolese, Richard G.; Fisher, Bernard; Hortobagyi, Gabriel N.; Bloomer, William D. (2000). "Neoplasms of the Breast". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. Breast Cancer Collaborative Management. CRC Press. 1988-04-01. ISBN 9780873711067.
  12. "Academic.Research.microsoft.com". Academic.Research.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  13. Margolese, Richard G. (1974). A doctor's eat-hearty guide for good health and long life. Parker Pub. Co. ISBN 9780132163743.
  14. "ISBN 9780132163743 | A Doctor's Eat-Hearty Guide for Good Health and Long Life". www.isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  15. "Research awards - Canadian Cancer Society". www.cancer.ca. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  16. Swaine, Ronald. "LDI - Margolese, Richard". www.ladydavis.ca. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  17. "News | Department of Oncology, McGill University". www.medicine.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
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