developing new techniques and reconstructive procedures for treating cancers. In his 'commando procedure', one of the earliest such procedures to be developed, the diseased tissue is removed and replaced by transposed tissue from elsewhere still attached to the parent site so that its blood supply was maintained. He was also one of the physicians who introduced isolated limb perfusion for treating melanoma in his clinic. He studied the effect of injecting patients with cancer with the smallpox vaccine and human interferons. References 1927 births 2014 deaths English surgeons English oncologists Alumni of Westminster Hospital Medical School Officers of the Order of the British Empire Physicians of the Royal Marsden Hospital Physicians of the Westminster Hospital