| 词条 | Marjorie Dalgarno |
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Marjorie Clare Dalgarno (1901–1983) was an Australian radiologist and a pioneer of mammography. She performed the first mammogram in Australia at the Rachel Forster Hospital and demonstrated the benefits of mammography as a breast cancer screening tool. BiographyDalgarno was born in Sydney in 1901 and studied medicine at the University of Sydney's Women's College. She graduated in 1925 and was hired as a resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where she worked in the radiology department. After marrying Harold McCredie, a general practitioner, in 1928, she established a radiological practice based out of their home in Campsie.[1] Her home practice included an x-ray machine installed in the dining room and a laundry that was converted into a darkroom for developing x-ray films.[2] In 1939, she began working at the Rachel Forster Hospital in Redfern and the Renwick Hospital for Infants in Summer Hill; she also worked at the Western Suburbs Hospital in Croydon during World War II.[1] In 1949, Dalgarno and her partner Mollie Cronin opened a new practice on Macquarie Street in central Sydney.[1] She also continued to work at the Rachel Forster Hospital, where Kathleen Cuningham had established a clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of breast lumps. Dalgarno modified an x-ray machine so that it could be used to produce mammograms (low-energy x-rays of the breasts), and in the early 1950s she performed the first mammogram in Australia.[2] In a study of 1000 asymptomatic women, she demonstrated the benefits of mammography as a screening tool to detect and treat breast cancer in its early stages, but widespread use of mammography was unfeasible at the time due to technological limitations and high radiation doses.[1][2] Dalgarno died in 1983.[2] LegacyAustralia adopted a national breast cancer screening program three decades after Dalgarno's work on mammography.[2] BreastScreen, an Australian organisation that provides free breast cancer screening for eligible women, named one of their mobile screening buses "Marjorie" in honour of Dalgarno.[3] References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=https://sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Dalgarno,_Marjorie_Clare|title=Dalgarno, Marjorie Clare|publisher=Sydney Medical School|first=Lise|last=Mellor|year=2008|accessdate=10 December 2017}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dalgarno, Marjorie}}2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/portraits-of-power/news-story/5ff273d69edfde3eb7cce2847a184927|title=Portraits of power|first=Tess|last=Livingstone|work=The Australian|date=5 March 2011|accessdate=10 December 2017}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mcivortimes.com.au/2016/11/04/750/marjorie-is-making-a-life-saving-trip-to-town|work=The McIvor Times|title=Marjorie is making a life-saving trip to town|date=4 November 2016|accessdate=10 December 2017}} 6 : 1901 births|1983 deaths|Australian radiologists|Sydney Medical School alumni|20th-century Australian medical doctors|Medical doctors from Sydney |
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