Denis Parsons Burkitt was an Irish surgeon and medical researcher who first identified #Burkitt's…

Denis Parsons Burkitt was an Irish surgeon and medical researcher who first identified #Burkitt'sLymphoma.

In 1957, in Uganda, Burkitt found several children suffering from fast-spreading tumours in the head and neck. When they died within weeks, #Burkitt recognised this was a previously undescribed cancer disease. He showed that these and all cases were characterized by infiltration of the affected tissues by lymphocytes. With colleagues Edward Williams and Clifford Nelson, he plotted the geographical incidence of the disease, and found it in the same areas endemic with malaria. This survey is regarded as one of the pioneering studies of geographical pathology.

Burkitt helped to develop #chemotherapy for the #disease.

Later, he championed high #fibre #diets.

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