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| * ]<ref name=onclive/><ref>{{cite news |last= Lopresti|first=Mike |date=17 Jan 2013 |title=Lance Armstrong cancer doctor has no mixed feelings|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/lopresti/2013/01/17/lance-armstrong-einhorn-cancer-doctor-oprah/1842777/ |work=] |location= |access-date=10 Nov 2018 }} </ref> – American cyclist. In 1996, Armstrong was battling stage three testicular cancer–that had spread to his brain, lungs, and abdomen. Dr. Einhorn led the medical team that treated Armstrong's cancer. By February 1997, Armstrong was declared cancer-free. The same year he founded the ], formerly known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to support cancer patients. | * ]<ref name=onclive/><ref>{{cite news |last= Lopresti|first=Mike |date=17 Jan 2013 |title=Lance Armstrong cancer doctor has no mixed feelings|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/lopresti/2013/01/17/lance-armstrong-einhorn-cancer-doctor-oprah/1842777/ |work=] |location= |access-date=10 Nov 2018 }} </ref> – American cyclist. In 1996, Armstrong was battling stage three testicular cancer–that had spread to his brain, lungs, and abdomen. Dr. Einhorn led the medical team that treated Armstrong's cancer. By February 1997, Armstrong was declared cancer-free. The same year he founded the ], formerly known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to support cancer patients. | ||
| * ]<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Dr. Einhorn Treating Cricketer Yuvraj Singh for Germ Cell Tumor |url=http://trialx.com/curetalk/2012/02/09/dr-einhorn-treating-cricketer-yuvraj-singh-for-germ-cell-tumor/ |work=CureTalk: Conversations about new treatments & cures |location= |date=9 Feb 2012 |access-date=10 Nov 2018 }} </ref> – Indian legendary cricket player who discovered the cancer in his lungs during Cricket world Cup 2011. Successfully treated for a mediastinal seminoma. Yuvraj returned to cricket after 1 year and founded YouWeCan Foundation which helped hundreds of cancer patients. | * ]<ref>{{cite news |last=Iver |first=Malathy |date=7 Feb 2012 |title=Yuvraj Singh's disease a model of curable cancer |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/new-zealand-in-india-2016/top-stories/Yuvraj-Singhs-disease-a-model-of-curable-cancer/articleshow/11786822.cms |work=] |location= |access-date= 10 Nov 2018 }} </ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Dr. Einhorn Treating Cricketer Yuvraj Singh for Germ Cell Tumor |url=http://trialx.com/curetalk/2012/02/09/dr-einhorn-treating-cricketer-yuvraj-singh-for-germ-cell-tumor/ |work=CureTalk: Conversations about new treatments & cures |location= |date=9 Feb 2012 |access-date=10 Nov 2018 }} </ref> – Indian legendary cricket player who discovered the cancer in his lungs during Cricket world Cup 2011. Successfully treated for a mediastinal seminoma. Yuvraj returned to cricket after 1 year and founded YouWeCan Foundation which helped hundreds of cancer patients. | ||
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Lawrence Einhorn is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and an oncologist.
Overview
Einhorn pioneered the development of the life-saving medical treatment in 1974 for testicular cancer, increasing the cure rate from 10% to 95% (Einhorn & Williams 1980).
Einhorn received a B.S. from Indiana University in 1965 and his M.D. from the University of Iowa in 1968. He served his internship and residency at IU Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the M.D. Anderson Hospital Tumor Institute in Houston, Texas. He returned to IU Medical Center in 1973 and was named Distinguished Professor of Medicine in 1987. He became the first Lance Armstrong Foundation Professor of Oncology in 2006.
Einhorn has received numerous honors in his career including the Glenn Irwin Experience Excellence Award, Riley Distinguished Lecturer, the Kettering Prize Cancer Research-General Motors Foundation, the ACCC Clinical Oncology Award, the Distinguished Clinician Award from the Milken Foundation, the Willis Stetson Award and Lecture from The University of Pennsylvania, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award for Cancer Research, the Herman B Wells Visionary Award, the State of Israel Peace Medal, the Vermeil Medal of Paris, and The David A. Kamofsky Memorial Award and Lecture from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and American Philosophical Society in 2001.
Famous patients
- Lance Armstrong – American cyclist. In 1996, Armstrong was battling stage three testicular cancer–that had spread to his brain, lungs, and abdomen. Dr. Einhorn led the medical team that treated Armstrong's cancer. By February 1997, Armstrong was declared cancer-free. The same year he founded the Livestrong Foundation, formerly known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to support cancer patients.
- Yuvraj Singh – Indian legendary cricket player who discovered the cancer in his lungs during Cricket world Cup 2011. Successfully treated for a mediastinal seminoma. Yuvraj returned to cricket after 1 year and founded YouWeCan Foundation which helped hundreds of cancer patients.
References
- http://medicine.iupui.edu/HEMO/Faculty/viewHEMOFaculty.asp?facID=2697
- ^ "How Einhorn Helped Turn a Deadly Cancer Into a Curable Disease". Oncology Live. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 10 Nov 2018.
- Lopresti, Mike (17 Jan 2013). "Lance Armstrong cancer doctor has no mixed feelings". USA Today. Retrieved 10 Nov 2018.
- Iver, Malathy (7 Feb 2012). "Yuvraj Singh's disease a model of curable cancer". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 Nov 2018.
- "Dr. Einhorn Treating Cricketer Yuvraj Singh for Germ Cell Tumor". CureTalk: Conversations about new treatments & cures. 9 Feb 2012. Retrieved 10 Nov 2018.
Authored works
- Einhorn LH. Curing metastatic testicular cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002;99:4592-5. PDF. doi:10.1073/pnas.072067999 PMID 11904381.
- Einhorn LH, Williams SD. Chemotherapy of disseminated seminoma. Cancer Clin Trials 1980;3:307-13. PMID 6159120.