Sir Reginald Sydney Murley (2 August 1916 – 2 October 1997) was a British surgeon who was President of the

Royal College of Surgeons The Royal College of Surgeons is an ancient college (a form of corporation) established in England to regulate the activity of surgeons. Derivative organisations survive in many present and former members of the Commonwealth. These organisations ar ...

.MURLEY, Sir Reginald (Sydney)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
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/ref> Reginald Murley was a breast cancer biological predeterminist, alongside Maurice Black and Neil McKinnon in the 1950s—recognizing that breast cancer is a systemic (not local) disease at the outset. Also a pioneer of breast conservation (vs radical mastectomy) in Britain, contemporary of George Crile Jr. eference: ‘The Breast Cancer Wars’, Barron H Lerner MD, 2001

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1916 births 1997 deaths British surgeons Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 20th-century British medical doctors 20th-century surgeons {{UK-med-bio-stub