Cade, Sir Stanford, (1895-1973)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/147
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Cade, Sir Stanford, (1895-1973)
Date(s)	: 1929-1971
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 18 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Cade | Sir | Stanford | 1895-1973 | Knight | radiologist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Stanford Cade qualified as a surgeon in 1917 and went on to hold a series of appointments at Westminster Hospital, London, becoming a full surgeon in 1937. In addition, he held posts at Mount Vernon Hospital and the Radium Institute. From an early interest in morbid anatomy and the surgical aspects of the treatment of cancer, Cade developed an interest in the treatment of malignant disease with radium and X rays. He is now best known for this pioneering work on radium, radiotherapy and the treatment of all types of cancer. He produced numerous articles and publications on cancer and surgical subjects, including Radium Treatment of Cancer (1929) and Malignant Disease and its Treatment by Radium, which was published in four volumes between 1948 and 1952. During the Second World War, Cade served in the Royal Air Force. He continued his association with the armed forces in the post-war period, serving as a civilian consultant surgeon to the RAF until 1965, and also as honorary civilian consultant in radiotherapy to the Army. He retired from his post at Westminster Hospital in 1960, but remained consulting surgeon until his death in 1973.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir Stanford Cade including series of detailed manuscript and typescript case summaries, many illustrated with diagrams and photographs, 1929-1970. Original indexes to some of the case records are included, facilitating access by patient name.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged by section as follows
A 'Radium' manuscript notebooks
B Typescript summaries, illustrated with photographs
C Chemotherapy index

Conditions governing access:

These records consist of case summaries relating to named individuals, including some children, and some with ages unknown. See individual item descriptions for the closure periods applied.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These volumes and binders of case summaries were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the Wellcome Library) in June 1993 by Professor Kurt Hellman of Westminster Hospital Radiotherapy Department.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Wellcome Library also holds a recording of a 1993 interview with some of Cade's colleagues at Westminster Hospital (GC/171). Some information pertaining to his involvement in the Cancer Research Campaign is included in SA/CRC. Further collections of relevance to radiotherapy may be found in Sources Leaflet no. 16.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2009