Gilbert Hungerford Fletcher
- Year of birth: 1911
- Year of death: 1992
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BIOGRAPHY
Gilbert Hungerford Fletcher was born in Paris and he became an American citizen in the early 40s. He played a major role in the design of the first cobalt-60 teleradiotherapy unit. Chairman of the Radiotherapy department of the M.D. Anderson Hospital of the University of Texas in Houston, he developed modern radiotherapy, inspired by the best-known European schools (Institut Curie, Manchester, Radiumhemmet Stockholm), improving techniques of megavoltage radiotherapy and brachytherapy as well as establishing novel concepts as the extension of irradiated volumes to areas of microscopic cancer spread. He created a strong team of clinicians, radiobiologists and radiation physicists, training hundreds of radiation oncologists who contributed worldwide to the evolution of our discipline.
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Contributions
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A short history of Radiotherapy - Part 1: From the discovery of X-rays and Radium to the era of megavoltage beams (1895-1960)
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A short history of Radiotherapy - Part 2: The megavoltage era. From the early sixties until now.