Richard Evans

bmj;381/apr21_8/p880/FAF1faRichard Evans (“Dick”) did his postgraduate training at the London Hospital and University College Hospital, London. In 1966 he was appointed consultant radiotherapist to the recently opened Northern Region Radiotherapy Centre and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. At the latter he worked with Gwen Hilton who, in her turn, had trained with the Curies in Paris and from whom he learned the importance of meticulous fractionation. In the 1960s Richard was one of the new generation of specialist trained radiotherapists who did not have a surgical background (a trainee colleague was Norman Bleehan, among others) and his arrival in Newcastle heralded “modern clinical oncology” in the north east.At UCH he worked with haematologist Tom Prankerd and on arrival in Newcastle he started to work with R B Thompson at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. Intravenous radioactive phosphorus (P-32) had become standard treatment for polycythaemia rubra vera, but haematologists were…
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