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Alexander Breslow
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Alexander Breslow
Date, Country, and City of Birth
March 23, 1928. New York, NY, USA
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July 20, 1980, New York, NY, USA
History of Life
Alexander Breslow was born in New York City in 1928. For his undergraduate and medical training, he went to the University of Chicago where he graduated as an MD in 1953. Subsequently he did an internship with the US public health service in Baltimore, followed by a period of postgraduate training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. He served his residency in pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After an instructorship in pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle, he joined in 1961 the staff of the pathology department of the George Washington University School of Medicine. Here he became a full professor in 1974 and director of the division of anatomical pathology in 1979, the year before his death.
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Breslow, A. (1970). Thickness, cross-sectional areas and depth of invasion in the prognosis of cutaneous melanoma. Annals of Surgery, 172, 902–908. (Free full text).
Breslow, A. (1975). Tumor thickness, level of invasion and node dissection in stage I cutaneous melanoma. Annals of Surgery, 182(5), 572–575.
Breslow, A. (1977a). Problems in the measurement of tumor thickness and level of invasion in cutaneous melanoma. Human Pathology, 8, 1–2.
Breslow, A. (1977b). Metastasis in cutaneous melanoma. Annals of Surgery, 186, 778 .No abstract available. Free PMC Article
Breslow, A. (1980). Prognosis in cutaneous melanoma: Tumor thickness as a guide to treatment. Pathology Annual, 15(Pt 1), 1–22.
Breslow, A., & Macht, S. D. (1977). Optimal size of resection margin for thin cutaneous melanoma. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, 145, 691–692.
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van den Tweel, J.G. (2016). Breslow, Alexander (1928–1980). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4688-1
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