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Charles B. Huggins
Dr. Charles Breton Huggins (September 22, 1901 - January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-born American physician and physiologist and cancer researcher specialising in prostate cancer. He and Peyton Rous were awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. This was the first discovery that showed that cancer could be controlled by chemicals.
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