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The James Ewing Lecture

LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr, MD

Arch Surg. 1987;122(11):1240-1243.

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First I would like to express my deep thanks and gratitude to the Society of Surgical Oncology for the esteemed privilege of serving as the 39th James Ewing Lecturer. Thirty years ago, I attended my first James Ewing meeting (New York, 1957) as a guest of Jack E. White, MD (Memorial Hospital Fellow, 1949 to 1951), a colleague and one of my mentors. Cornelius P. Rhoads, MD, director of Memorial Hospital, New York, from 1940 to 1959, was the Ewing lecturer that year.

Although I did not know Dr James Ewing, I had the opportunity to speak on numerous occasions with his only son, James Halsted Ewing, MD, a friend and medical school classmate of Guy Robbins, MD (Northwestern University, Chicago, 1936). The younger Dr Ewing worked in the Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic when I was a fellow at Memorial Hospital (1957 to 1959). He was also an Amherst College . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 9, 1987.

Read before the Annual Meeting of the Society of Surgical Oncology, London, April 28, 1987.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, Howard University Hospital, 2041 Georgia Ave, NW, Washington, DC, 20060 (Dr Leffall).

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