that defended the needs of cancerous children under the title "Faut-il-les permissoirs? (Should they be permitted?)" that appeared in the French Archives of Pediatrics. She advocated for the children by citing the many advances that had been made in the young discipline of childhood cancer and advanced the "immense scientific interest of this specialty" and the essential need for psychological support for the parents as well as the sick child. Her obituary mentions that she combined "an acute intellectual curiosity with a disturbing and fruitful non-conformity, Dr. Schweisguth has shown modesty and scientific humility throughout his professional life. This moral attitude, which she baptized realism, was in no way unrelated to the optimism and courage she instilled in families." She retired from the institute but not from the profession in 1978. Personal life Many years later, she decided to adopt one of the children, Jacques, she had cared for when she was already an adult. She retired from the Institut Gustave Roussy in 1978. She died on 26 March 2002 at her home in Cotâpre in Molphey in Côte-d'Or. Awards 1997: co-winner of the Antoine-Lacassagne prize, awarded by the National League against Cancer, with Thierry Philip. 1999: Knight of the Legion of Honor Bibliography Arty R. Coppes-Zantinga, Jean-Michel Zucker, and Max J. Coppes, "Odile Schweisguth, MD, Alma Mater of Pediatric Oncology", Medical and Pediatric Oncology 34:59–60 (2000 Luisa Massimo, "Odile Schweisguth: Pioneer of European Pediatric Oncology", Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 20:75–77, 2003 References 1913 births 2002 deaths French oncologists People from Remiremont 20th-century women physicians French women physicians 20th-century French physicians University of Paris alumni Recipients of the Legion of Honour