Kenneth Bagshawe

Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe CBE FRS FRCP FRCOG FRCR ^[1] (17 August 1925 – 27 December 2022) was a British oncologist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology, at Charing Cross Hospital.^[2][3]

Professor Kenneth Bagshawe CBE FRCP FRCOG FRCR
Born	Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe (1925-08-17)17 August 1925
Died	27 December 2022(2022-12-27) (aged 97) Paddington, London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Oncologist

Bagshawe worked at St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1946 to 1952, and subsequently became a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, United States, in 1955.^[4]

From 1960, he was Senior Lecturer in Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and Professor of Medical Oncology there (from 1975 to 1990).^[4]

Bagshawe served as chair of the Cancer Research Campaign's Scientific Committee (from 1983 to 1988).^[4]

Bagshawe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989,^[4][5] and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1990 Birthday Honours.^[6]

Bagshawe died in Paddington, London on 27 December 2022, at the age of 97.^[7]

Works

• Choriocarcinoma: the clinical biology of the trophoblast and its tumours, Edward Arnold, 1969
• (editor) Medical oncology: medical aspects of malignant disease, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1975, ISBN 978-0-632-09370-0
• (editor) VP-16: recent advances and future prospects Grune & Stratton, 1985

References

1. Begent, Richard; Seckl, Michael (2024). "Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe. 17 August 1925 — 27 December 2022". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 76.
2. "Membership of Advisory Council" (PDF). Cancer Research. 59 (7 Supplement). 1 April 1999. ISSN 1538-7445. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
3. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2007). The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-112-7. OL 25554713M. Wikidata Q29581749.
5. "Kenneth Bagshawe". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
6. "No. 52173". The London Gazette. 15 June 1990. pp. 1–28.
7. "Prof Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe, CBE FRS FRCP FRCOG FRCR death notice". The Telegraph. 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

External links

• [1]
• Kenneth Bagshawe on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website