Reginald Murley Explained

Sir Reginald Sydney Murley (2 August 1916 – 2 October 1997) was a British surgeon^[1] who was President of the Royal College of Surgeons.^[2]

Reginald Murley was a breast cancer biological predeterminist, alongside Maurice Black and Neil McKinnon in the 1950s—recognizing that breast cancer is a systemic (not local) disease at the outset. Also a pioneer of breast conservation (vs radical mastectomy) in Britain, contemporary of George Crile Jr. [reference: ‘The Breast Cancer Wars’, Barron H Lerner MD, 2001].

Notes and References

1. Web site: Murley, Sir Reginald Sydney - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. rcseng.ac.uk.
2. MURLEY, Sir Reginald (Sydney)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 Dec 2013