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First Title value, for Searching Soteriou, Helen Margaret (1920 - 2012)

2024-05-21T21:47:01Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-12-21 2015-02-16
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Occupation Oncologist Radiotherapist
Details Helen Soteriou neé Mellor was a clinical oncologist at St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, and Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus. She was born in Liverpool on 11 April 1920, the daughter of Stanley Alfred Mellor, a Unitarian minister, who died when she was just four years old, and Anita Mellor née Thomson. She was educated at Rotherham Grammar School for Girls and went on to study medicine at the Royal Free Medical School. She gained her MRCS LRCP in 1943. Between 1944 and 1947 she served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, with the rank of captain. She gained her FRCS in 1952 and then trained in radiotherapy. She was a registrar at the Royal Marsden Hospital and a senior registrar in the radiotherapy department at Westminster Hospital. In 1955 she was appointed to her consultant post at St Luke's. She became head of the department there in 1959. In 1969 she married Andreas Soteriou, a Cypriot businessman, and emigrated to Cyprus, where she co-founded the radiotherapy and oncology department at Nicosia General Hospital. She later established the first private radiotherapy unit at the Evangelista Clinic. She retired in 1995 and was awarded an OBE in 1998. In addition to her clinical work, she was also actively politically, and joined in protests against the Turkish occupation of the northern half of the island. Helen Soteriou died on 19 November 2012, aged 92.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003324
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First Title value, for Searching Rothwell, Richard Ian (1942 - 2021)

2024-05-21T21:47:01Z

by Dan Ash
Publication Date 2022-04-04 2022-04-19
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Occupation Oncologist Radiotherapist
Details Ian Rothwell was a consultant clinical oncologist at Cookridge Hospital, Leeds. He was born on 25 July 1942 in Buckingham to Mary Anne and Edward Richard Rothwell. A keen Scout, he enjoyed leading mountaineering expeditions. He studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, during which time carried out an elective with the Red Cross in Yemen. After qualifying in 1966, Ian trained in surgery and, after obtaining his FRCS, went to work in Sabah, East Borneo, where he met his future wife, Mary. From 1968 to 1971 he was posted to Sandakan, Semporna and Keningau, after which he returned to the UK to undergo surgical training. He returned to Malaysia, and in 1974 was appointed as a surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. In 1976 he played a key role in helping the survivors of the ‘Double Six Tragedy’, an aeroplane crash which claimed the lives of 11 people, including the then chief minister Tun Fuad Stephens. Ian returned to UK in 1978 and decided to retrain as a clinical oncologist, which he did at Cookridge Hospital in Leeds. Soon after completing his training he was appointed as a consultant with a special interest in gynaecological cancer. He also took on the care of cancer patients in Pontefract, where he became a valued and respected colleague for 35 years. Ian suffered from three separate cancers during his life and overcame them all with quiet courage. This gave him considerable empathy, which was a great help to his patients as well as the local and national cancer self-help groups to which he gave unstinting support. In retirement he developed an interest in medical history and was a popular lecturer at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds and in a variety of other venues around Yorkshire. In his last few years Ian was sustained by his wife and close family, who were by his side when he died from cerebrovascular disease on 1 August 2021. He was 79. He was survived by Mary, his wife of 51 years, their three children Robert, Martin and Tracy, and five grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010102
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First Title value, for Searching Van den Brenk, Hendrick Athos Sydney (1921 - 1992)

2024-05-21T21:47:01Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Oncologist Radiologist Radiotherapist
Details Hendrick Van den Brenk, a radiotherapist, radiologist and experimental oncologist in Australia and England, was born on 22 June 1921 in Sydney, Australia, and qualified MB BS at Melbourne in 1944. He gained the MS degree in 1954, the same year in which he passed the Fellowship. After practising as a general surgeon in Boort, Victoria, he spent two years as senior research fellow in physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to Australia, he was consultant radiotherapy research officer at the Melbourne Cancer Institute from 1956 to 1967. He then became Richard Dimbleby Fellow in Cancer Research and honorary consultant physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London, from 1967 to 1978, becoming the Foundation Richard Dimbleby Professor of Cancer Research at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School from 1975 to 1978. On returning to Australia he was SMO (Appeals) on the Repatriation Committee from 1979 and SMO of the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs. Harold Hewitt, MD, FRCR, writes in the *British Medical Journal*: '"Van" had an international reputation as a clinical radiotherapist, radiobiologist and oncologist. He published over 250 papers which, fifteen years after his retirement from clinical and laboratory work, retained a high citation index. 'While working as chief of the radiobiomedical unit of Melbourne Cancer Institute Van carried out one of the first controlled clinical trials of hyperbaric oxygen as an adjunct to radiotherapy. In 1967 he was appointed foundation director of the Richard Dimbleby Laboratory of Cancer Research at St Thomas's Hospital, London. There he devoted himself to experimental research at the bench. After returning to Australia in 1977 for family reasons he became senior medical officer of the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs and then, after his 'retirement', medical officer to a high security prison. 'Van's toughness (he lost the sight of one eye in infancy and had severe angina for his last twenty years and malignant disease for his last three) contrasted with his sensitive nature. He was a talented violinist and pianist and a philatelist and angler. His acerbic rejection of overpromoted theories and inflated egos was given an extra edge by a guttural ingredient (from his Dutch parentage) in his Australian accent. His wife, Miriam, died before him; he is survived by his daughters, Christine and Judy, and six grandchildren.' He died on 21 August 1992, aged 72 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008377
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