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BY the death of Dr. Helen Chambers on July 21, Great Britain has lost one of its most devoted workers in the cause and treatmont of cancer. She received her medical education at the London School of Medicine for Women, took her M.B. with first-class honours in 1903, and was a gold medallist. At twenty-four years of age, she was appointed pathologist to the Royal Free Hospital, a post she held until 1915, when she resigned to take up a similar position at the Endell Street Military Hospital. Before the War she had been doing part-time research work in the Cancer Research Laboratories of the Middlesex Hospital, and when the military hospital closed she accepted full-time work thero under the Medical Research Council.
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Dr. Helen Chambers. Nature 136, 250 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136250b0
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