performed his final radical mastectomy in 1954 and became a public advocate of alternative procedures, which are now standard. In 1955, he published an article, "A Plea Against the Blind Fear of Cancer", in Life magazine and a book, Cancer and Common Sense. The medical establishment was resistant to the changes he advocated so he sought to influence them through their patients. He was an outspoken critic of traditional procedures for decades and some of his patients, including author Babette Rosmond, became public advocates as well. Crile died of lung cancer at age 84. Family Crile married Jane Halle in 1935. She died of cancer in 1963. They had three daughters and one son, CBS News producer George Crile III. Their daughter Ann Crile married surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn and their son is author Rip Esselstyn. In 1963, Crile married his second wife, Helga Sandburg, the daughter of poet Carl Sandburg. Publications Crile was an avid author on many subjects, especially medicine and travel. He had a weekly radio program in the 1980s called 90 Seconds on WERE. The Hospital Care of the Surgical Patient: A Surgeon's Handbook (with Franklin L. Shively Jr.), C. C Thomas, 1943 Practical Aspects of Thyroid Disease, Saunders, 1949. Treasure-Diving Holidays (with Jane Crile), Viking, 1954. Cancer and Common Sense, Viking, 1955. More Than Booty (with Jane Crile), McGraw, 1965. A Biological Consideration of Treatment of Breast Cancer, C. C Thomas, 1967. A Naturalistic View of Man: The Importance of Early Training in Learning, Living, and the Organization of Society, World Publishing, 1969. Above and Below: A Journey Through Our National Underwater Parks (with Helga Sandburg), McGraw, 1969. What Women Should Know About the Breast Cancer Controversy, Macmillan, 1973. Surgery, Your Choices, Your Alternatives, Delacorte, 1978. The Way It Was: Sex, Surgery, Treasure, and Travel, 1907–1987, Kent State University Press, 1992. References 1907 births 1992 deaths American surgeons American autobiographers University School alumni Hotchkiss School alumni Yale University alumni Harvard Medical School alumni 20th-century American physicians 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century surgeons