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Emil J. Freireich
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- AN AMERICAN HEMATOLOGIST and educator, he was the joint winner, with Emil Frei III, of the Charles F. Kettering Prize of the General Motors Cancer Foundation in 1983 for “the clinical and preliminary trial of intensive intermittent combination chemotherapy that resulted in long-standing and, in many cases, permanent remissions, of acute leukemia in children.” Emil J Freireich was born on March 16, 1927, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of David and Mary Freireich. Both his parents were born in Germany and ran a restaurant in Chicago. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Freireich, Emil J.]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Emil_J._Freireich
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