Alexander Brunschwig
Alexander Brunschwig (September 11, 1901 – August 7, 1969) was an American surgeon and oncologist.
Alexander Brunschwig was born on September 11, 1901, in El Paso, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree (1923) and master's (1924) from the University of Chicago. He continued his medical education at Rush Medical College in Chicago.[1]
Brunschwig developed aggressive surgical techniques for patients with various cancers.[2] One of his techniques was pelvic exenteration surgery, which removes major organs from the patient's pelvic cavity. He performed numerous exenterations for patients with gynecologic cancers, reporting results of a 22-patient series in the first volume of Cancer.[3] Pelvic exenteration is controversial, because it is one of the most aggressive and disfiguring surgeries used in oncology, and has not been subject to controlled clinical trials.[4]
Brunschwig died on August 7, 1969, in New York City, from heart problems.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Alexander Brunschwig (1901-1969)". CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. 24 (6): 361–362. November 1, 1974. doi:10.3322/canjclin.24.6.361. ISSN 0007-9235.
- ↑ Ellis, Harold (August 2, 2019). "Alexander Brunschwig: a pioneer of radical cancer surgery". British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 80 (8): 482–482. doi:10.12968/hmed.2019.80.8.482. ISSN 1750-8460.
- ↑ Schulman, Ariel; Kashanian, James; Teper, Ervin; Godec, Ciril (April 2014). "Dr. Alexander Brunschwig (1901-1969) - A Founder of the Total Pelvic Exenteration and Other Radical Surgical Advances of the 20th Century". Journal of Urology. 191 (4S). doi:10.1016/j.juro.2014.02.1746. ISSN 0022-5347.
- ↑ Lerner, Barron H. (August 30, 2011). "The Annals of Extreme Surgery". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
- ↑ "Dr. Alexander Brunschwig Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
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