Abstracts and articles from conferences

• Reference:GB 250 120/1/2/10
• Dates of Creation:1971-1989
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  20 items

• Scope and Content

  Abstracts, reprints and offprints of articles by Thurstan Brewin. From a folder labelled, “Abstracts appearing in the program of conferences at which I spoke”.

  1. Editorial from ‘College Bulletin’ May 1985, Vol. 14, No. 3.

  2. ‘Some general interests (and examples of subjects discussed in lectures or talks I have given in recent years)’. Typescript list, 1 page.

  3. ‘Talks given (apart from numerous lectures to medical and radiography trainees and papers read at meetings within the Institute)’. Typescript list, 2 pages. 2 copies, one with handwritten additions.

  4. ‘The problem of informed consent’. Abstract of talk given in Edinburgh, 28 March 1987.

  5. ‘Inappropriate management’. Abstract from ‘Radiotherapy: Consensus Management of Cancer’ at the British Institute of Radiology. British Journal of Radiology, August 1989.

  6. ‘Clinical experience with Tamoxifen (I.C.I. 46.474) and with Clomiphene in the management of advanced or recurrent breast cancer’. Text of a talk given at I.C.I., Alderley Park, 28 April 1972. Typescript, 6 pages.

  7. ‘Six years experience with an infertility drug (Clomiphene) in the management of advanced breast cancer’. Abstract from Sympos. Int. Ther. Non Mutilantes des Cancereuses de Sein, Strasbourg, 27-30 June 1972.

  8. ‘Breakthrough’. Note by Thurstan Brewin, published in the Lancet, 11 December 1971, p. 1301.

  9. ‘Communication and the cancer patient’. Abstract from 10th European Conference on Psychosomatic Research, Edinburgh, 18 September 1974.

  10. ‘Comparing different response rates in cancer chemotherapy’. Abstract from International Chemotherapy Congress, London, July 1975. Brewin has underlined parts of an adjacent abstract and added the note, “Fallacy!”

  11. ‘Talking to the partner or relatives of the dying patient’. Abstract. Typescript.

  12. ‘Dosage concepts and the therapeutic ratio in chemotherapy and radiotherapy’. Abstract from Combined Meeting of the British Association of Surgical Oncology, West of Scotland Oncological Association and Glasgow Gastroenterology Club held at University of Glasgow, 13 December 1974. Published in Clinical Oncology, 1975, 1, pp. 173-179.

  13. ‘Specific food or alcohol intolerance: a systemic effect of cancer that may give early warning of its presence.’ Abstract from International Cancer Congress, Houston, Texas, May 1970. Typescript, 1 page.

  14. ‘Some aspects of clinical trials’. Abstract from Tenth Scientific Meeting of the British Association of Surgical Oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, 8-9 December 1977. Published in Clinical Oncology, 1978, 4, pp. 387-396.

  15. ‘A trial of anti-androgen therapy for breast cancer’. Abstract from Winter meeting of the British Association of Surgical Oncology held at Charing Cross Hospital, London, 19 November 1982.

  16. ‘Clinical experience with Tamoxifen (ICI 46.474) in the management of breast cancer’. Abstract from Eighth International Congress of Chemotherapy, Athens, 8-14 September 1973. Typescript, 1 page.

  17. ‘Communication with patients’. Lecture notes for Thurstan Brewin’s talk to ‘The Management of Advanced Cancer’, British Council Course 466, St. Christopher’s Hospice, London, February 1985. Typescript, 2 pages.

  18. ‘Recent advances in diagnosis and treatment’. Text of a talk to ‘Update on Cancer: A meeting for the general public’, City Chambers, Glasgow, 21 June 1983. Typescript, 6 pages.

  19. ‘The patient with advanced cancer: notes on communication’. Abstract. Typescript, 2 pages.

  20. ‘Counselling and communication’. Abstract of a talk to the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation 18th Annual Symposium, London, 12-13 May 1986. Typescript, 2 pages.

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