Denis Parsons Burkitt ( 1911 - 1993 )
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At the beginning of our careers, each of us has the dream of someday making a discovery that will change the way our respective disciplines regard something we now regard as fact. Denis Parsons Burkitt was able to change the course of our thinking twice in his career. More remarkably, the two discov eries were, to the casual observer, in widely different fields of study, i.e., the elucidation of the origin of a tumor common in children in parts of Africa and the observation that dietary fiber deficiency is related to many of the chronic diseases of the Western world. Denis Burkitt was born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on February 28, 1911 and received his Bachelor of Medicine degree from Trinity College, studied surgery in Edinburgh, and later received his medical degree from Dublin University. His father, a
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Burkitt lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system (in particular, B lymphocytes). It was named after Denis Parson Burkitt, a missionary doctor/surgeon and a research scientist, who first described the disease in 1958 while working in Equatorial Africa. In the original report, this type of lymphoma was described in the jaw of young African children. Dennis Burkitt was born in Ireland February...
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Miller (1911), Parsons (1911), Parkes Weber (1912), Naish (1912), and Barber (1913) reported cases in the next year, and since then a large number of cases have been described in England, Canada, the United States and recently in France, Germany and Norway. The important papers by Barber (1920, 1926, 1933) and Parsons (1927), and the reviews by Mitchell (1930), Hamperl and Wallis (1933) give an...
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