Trapp, Ethlyn

TRAPP, Ethlyn, doctor (b 18 July 1891, New Westminster; d 31 July 1972, Vancouver). During WWI she worked in military hospitals overseas, then returned to Canada and graduated from medical school at McGill Univ. In VANCOUVER she was an early exponent of the use of radiotherapy for treating cancer. Director of the BC Cancer Institute from 1939 to 1944, she was the first woman president of the BC Medical Assoc (1946) and of the National Cancer Institute of Canada (1952). A member of the Order of...

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