Henry Pancoast
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Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 - 1939) was an American radiologist after whom a type of lung tumor is named (Pancoast tumor).
Pancoast was born in Philadelphia to prominent Quaker parents; his father was a doctor. He was educated at the (Society of) Friends Central High School. He entered the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and graduated in 1898.
His first medical job was at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, and in 1900 he started surgical training there. When the hospital's first skiagrapher retired in 1903 Pancoast applied.
Pancoast became the first professor of radiology in the USA in 1912.Template:US-med-bio-stub
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