Cade, Sir Stanford

  • Cade; Sir; Stanford, 1895-1973
Date:
1929-1971
Reference:
GC/147
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Series of detailed manuscript and typescript case summaries, many illustrated with diagrams and photographs, 1929-1970. Original indexes to some of the case records are included, facilitating access by patient name.

Publication/Creation

1929-1971

Physical description

18 boxes Paper, photographs

Arrangement

Arranged by section as follows

A 'Radium' manuscript notebooks

B Typescript summaries, illustrated with photographs

C Chemotherapy index

Acquisition note

These volumes and binders of case summaries were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the library at Wellcome Collection) in June 1993 by Professor Kurt Hellman of Westminster Hospital Radiotherapy Department.

Biographical note

Sir Stanford Cade qualified as a surgeon in 1917 and went on to hold a series of appointments at Westminster Hospital, London, becoming a full surgeon in 1937. In addition, he held posts at Mount Vernon Hospital and the Radium Institute. From an early interest in morbid anatomy and the surgical aspects of the treatment of cancer, Cade developed an interest in the treatment of malignant disease with radium and X rays. He is now best known for this pioneering work on radium, radiotherapy and the treatment of all types of cancer. He produced numerous articles and publications on cancer and surgical subjects, including Radium Treatment of Cancer (1929) and Malignant Disease and its Treatment by Radium, which was published in four volumes between 1948 and 1952. During the Second World War, Cade served in the Royal Air Force. He continued his association with the armed forces in the post-war period, serving as a civilian consultant surgeon to the RAF until 1965, and also as honorary civilian consultant in radiotherapy to the Army. He retired from his post at Westminster Hospital in 1960, but remained consulting surgeon until his death in 1973.

Related material

Wellcome Collection also holds a recording of a 1993 interview with some of Cade's colleagues at Westminster Hospital (GC/171). Some information pertaining to his involvement in the Cancer Research Campaign is included in SA/CRC.

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  • 460