Sir Richard Doll, 1912 to 2005: a tribute and personal remembrance.

摘要

Sir Richard Doll, who was among the first to show the relationship of smoking with lung cancer, died in Oxford, UK, on July 24, 2005, at age 92. In 1950, in his landmark case-control study with Sir Austin Bradford Hill, Richard judged that smoking was "a cause and an important cause" of the rapidly increasing epidemic of lung cancer in the United Kingdom. In 1951, they began the landmark prospective cohort study of British doctors- Fifty years later with Sir Richard Peto, he showed that half of all smokers are killed prematurely by their habit and that cessation has beneficial effects, especially on cardiovascular disease, but also on