• Overlook Hospital, founded in 1906 by a 26-year-old entrepreneur, established the first hematology oncology children's clinic in New Jersey, in 1977?

Facts on topics related to Oncology

Medicine

• Harvard medical graduate Brenda Taylor reached the 2004 Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles?
• poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
• Body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
• body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
• flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer?
• Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female conventional doctor in South Asia?
• metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension?
• toso is a medicinal sake drunk during Japanese New Year celebrations?
• the Chinese tallow tree is used to make soap, candles, and medicine?
• the Tree of Hippocrates is a plane tree in Kos under which, according to legend, Hippocrates taught his pupils medicine?

Pathology

• the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?

Hematology

• Enrique Pérez Santiago was the first Puerto Rican hematologist?
• Overlook Hospital, founded in 1906 by a 26-year-old entrepreneur, established the first hematology oncology children's clinic in New Jersey, in 1977?

Radiology

• Anna Goldfeder, a pioneer in the fields of radiology and cancer treatment, worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory?
• Sven-Ivar Seldinger, a Swedish radiologist, first introduced the procedure of obtaining safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs by use of a wire?

Plastic surgery

• plastic surgeons use body shaping to remove large amounts of hanging skin from the bodies of men and women who have lost as much as 45 to 136 kg (100 to 300 pounds)?
• Joe Shishido transitioned from a moderately successful melodrama actor into a popular villain and then action star after he underwent plastic surgery to severely enlarge his cheeks?
• Sir James Hutchison, known as the "Pimpernel of the Maquis" for his liaison work with the French Resistance, was so well known to the Gestapo that he had plastic surgery before being parachuted into France after D-Day?
• a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep "worry" lines that run across the forehead?
• the charity Facing the World offers cosmetic surgery to children with facial disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?
• the historic Streamline Moderne Greyhound Bus Depot in Columbia, South Carolina, is now the office for a plastic surgeon?