Mary Lois Murphy

(1916- ) born near Alliance, Box Butte County, lived in Lincoln. Physician, instructor of pediatrics, researcher, author, involved in experimental chemotherapy at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer in New York, introduced in 1970 a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment of all solid tumors as well as leukemia in children, played an important part in conducting clinical trials in children of many anti-cancer drugs, authored or co-authored 150 research articles. Consult Vogue, May 1967, pp. 188-189 and American Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Vol 8 (1986) 58-62 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 5 (2003) 562.

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