title: James Ewing: cancer man.
abstract: To a large extent, the progress in understanding, diagnosing and treating cancer is the story of individuals: James Ewing was one of the giants. In spite of personal tragedy and infirmities he rose to become the leading tumor pathologist of his time and to head the nation's first cancer center in New York.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Huvos
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000266:history*; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000266:history; D012512:Sarcoma, Ewing / Q000266:history; D014481:United States