Fred W. Stewart

Fred W. Stewart (1894-1991) was an American surgical pathologist[1] who was chief of pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Stewart was a friend of Cornelius P. Rhoads, who later became the director of Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Stewart, as "Ferdie," was the addressee of a controversial letter penned by Rhoads. Stewart also served as acting director of Memorial in 1944 while Rhoads was in the military.[2] In 1947, while Rhoads was director of Memorial, Stewart received a grant of $30,000 for cancer pathology and other teaching. This was part of the largest aggregation of Federal cancer grants ever given to a single institution at that time, a total of $142,550.[3]

In the 1940s, while at Memorial Hospital (which later merged with Sloan-Kettering), Stewart studied breast cancer with Frank W. Foote, Jr.[4]

Stewart-Treves syndrome, one of the classical sarcoma syndromes, was first described by Stewart and Norman Treves in 1948, in the first issue of the Cancer journal.[5] Stewart was the editor of Cancer until 1961, when he was replaced by John W. Berg.[6]

Selected Publications

References

  1. ↑ Lymph Node Cytopathology. Stefan E. Pambuccian, Ricardo H. Bardales. 2010
  2. ↑ "Hospital Praised For Cancer Work." The New York Times. May 7, 1944
  3. ↑ "New York Hospital Gets Cancer Grant." The New York Times, December 13, 1947
  4. ↑ The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century. Barron H. Lerner. 2010
  5. ↑ Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Murray F. Brennan, Cristina R. Antonescu, Robert G. Maki 2013
  6. ↑ "Cancer Society Names Editor." The New York Times, October 8, 1961.
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