About Melvin Tefft
Lived 1935 – 2003 (aged 67). Melvin Tefft was a physician.
Melvin Tefft (15 December 1932 – 11 May 2003) was an American physician who specialised in radiation oncology in children at the Boston Children's Hospital and later at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was the first to report an extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma in 1969.
Early life and education Melvin Tefft was born on 15 December 1932, in Boston. In 1954, he received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, and in 1958 gained a medical diploma from Boston University School of Medicine.
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American physician
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Melvin Tefft was born on 20 November 1935.
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Melvin Tefft died on 11 May 2003.
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Melvin Tefft was a physician.
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