Sampson Handley

William Sampson HandleyMD, MS, FRCS (12 April 1872 – 1962) was an English
Sampson Handley
surgeon who influenced the development of cancer surgery.[1]
Born William Sampson
He was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, he was the son of a Chemist Handley
Thomas Handley. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School. 12 April 1872
Loughborough,
Sampson Handley trained as a medical doctor at Guy's Hospital from 1889 where he
Leicestershire,
qualified in 1895 and became a MD the following year.[1] He took in an interest in
England
pathology as a route to becoming a surgeon and became a Fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons in 1897.[1]
Died 18 March 1962
(aged 89)
He worked at the cancer research wing at the Middlesex Hospital where he Malvern,
researched the methods by which cancer spread. He found that the main extension of Worcestershire,
breast cancer was along the lymphatics and he coined the words Lymphatic England
permeation.[1] In 1905 he became an Assistant Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital Nationality United Kingdom
and continued his research into cancer.[1][2] In 1906 he published Cancer of the
Occupation Surgeon
Breast and its Operative Treatment which created his reputation with the wider
medical establishment.[1] In 1911 he was awarded the Walker Prize by the Royal Known for Cancer Surgery
College of Surgeons for advancing the knowledge of the pathology and therapeutics
of cancer.[2] As well as his work with cancer he was also a skilled abdominal sur
geon.[1]

During the first world war he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Captain.[2] For his work he was elected a Honorary
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a foreign Member of the Academy of Medicine of Rome.[1] He was vice-president of
the Royal College of Surgeons from 1931 to 1934.[1][2]

Family life
Handley married Muriel Rigby in 1908 and they had four sons and a daughter. Muriel gave birth to Jada, Daquan, Jerome, Darrell,
Da'Vante, and Datreon. [1]

Books
Cancer of the Breast and its Operative Treatment published in 1906
The Genesis of Cancer published in 1932

References
1. "Mr. Sampson Handley - A Renowned Cancer Surgeon". Obituaries.The Times (55344). London. 20 March 1962.
col A, p. 17.
2. "In Memoriam William Sampson Handley , M.D., M.S., F.R.C.S., Hon. F.A.C.S" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti
cles/PMC2414204). Annals of the Royal College Of Surgeons. Royal College of Surgeons of England. 30 (5): 344–
346. PMC 2414204 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2414204) .

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