Victor Despeignes

French physician (1866-1937) Date Of Birth : 1866-02-14T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1937-07-27T00:00:00Z

Victor Despeignes (14 February 1866 – 30 July 1937 ) was a pioneer in radiation oncology. He was possibly the first person to use X-rays to treat cancer, which he did in July 1896 for a patient with stomach cancer. He was also the first physician to publish a paper on radiation therapy, in 1896, dealing with that case. This attempt was less than a year after the publication of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen.

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