Alexander Brunschwig
American surgeon and oncologist (1901–1969)
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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]
