Kenneth Bagshawe

Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe (17 August 1925 – 27 December 2022) was a British oncologist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology, at Charing Cross Hospital.^[1][2]

Professor Kenneth Bagshawe CBE FRCP FRCOG FRCR
Born	Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe (1925-08-17)17 August 1925
Died	27 December 2022(2022-12-27) (aged 97) Paddington, London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Oncologist

Bagshawe worked at St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1946 to 1952, and subsequently became a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, United States, in 1955.^[3]

From 1960, he was Senior Lecturer in Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and Professor of Medical Oncology there (from 1975 to 1990).^[3]

Bagshawe served as chair of the Cancer Research Campaign's Scientific Committee (from 1983 to 1988).^[3]

Bagshawe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989,^[3][4] and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1990 Birthday Honours.^[5]

Bagshawe died in Paddington, London on 27 December 2022, at the age of 97.^[6]

Works

• Choriocarcinoma: the clinical biology of the trophoblast and its tumours, Edward Arnold, 1969
• (editor) Medical oncology: medical aspects of malignant disease, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1975, ISBN 978-0-632-09370-0
• (editor) VP-16: recent advances and future prospects Grune & Stratton, 1985