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Georges Mathe Obituary
Nicolas Sarkozy's office said Mathe died on Friday, but did not provide any additional details.
"His contribution to the progress of oncology remains major," the statement said. "In 1959, he performed the first bone marrow transplants on six Yugoslav physicians who had been accidentally irradiated at a nuclear power plant. Four of them survived."
Mathe was the first physician to use bone marrow transplantation to treat leukemia. The procedure involves giving patients a high dose of cancer drugs and radiation to kill leukemia cells. Transplanting bone marrow is also used to treat radiation and blood diseases including sickle cell anemia.
Mathe founded a specialized cancer center in the Paris suburb of Villejuif in the early 1960s and ran its blood disease unit until 1990, the statement said.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press
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ROBERT B THOMPSON
October 23, 2010
CHER GEORGES JE VOUS VOUDRAI DE REMERCIER FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL REASEARCH YOU INSTILLED INTO ME DURING THE YEAR OF 1972=1973.NOW YOU HAVE BEEN REWARDED AND MAY YOU NOW REST IN PEACE
Susan Brooks
October 22, 2010
Thank you for all you have done for fighting cancer. You have helped people around the world. Now it is your turn to relax in the hands of god. God bless your family.
October 21, 2010
Dearest Dr. Mathe may you rest in eternal peace. The gifts you gave to us all will echo in eternity. God Bless and comfort always the souls who love you most. With deepest respect and gratitude. Missy in Massachusetts.
Shirl
October 20, 2010
My coldolences to the Mathe family. May you find comfort through your memorie and leaning upon the god of all confort who comforts us through our darkest hour.
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Bunny
October 20, 2010
My husband received a bone marrow transplant this past May. He was diagnosed with CML that went to AML. We are so grateful to you for your amazing discovery and the contribution that it has made to society. The world is a better place for what you have done. My sympathy and prayers are with your family. THANK YOU!
Melanie Richard
October 20, 2010
Thank you Dr. Mathe for your tremendous contribution to medicine. I substituted at a local school here in Gainesville, FL. Monday, October 18th, 2010, and we talked about cells. The middle school students were very knowledgeable about leukemia and had friends and loved ones that have been ill and lived with leukemia. Of course some of their loved ones succumbed to leukemia, but we can't win every battle. Your work lives on. with Gratitude, Melanie Richard
Lillian
October 20, 2010
With deepest sympathy to the family of Dr. Mathe. His gift of making in advancement in science with bone marrow for medical advancement will live on. May the comfort in the thought at Isaiah 33:24 give you hope that sickness will be forever eradicated. A life without cancer, diseases and suffering will finally come to fruition.
John Mohler
October 20, 2010
Thanks to your pioneering work Dr. Mathe, my son is now fully recovered from aplastic anemia after receiving a bone marrow transplant at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Although you did not perform the transplant yourself, my son and so many others are alive today thanks to your daring work. Thank you sir, and may you rest in peace.
Sheryl
October 19, 2010
Thank you. Rest in peace Mr. Mathe.
Marc Bowden
October 19, 2010
Thank you my dear Dr Georges Mathe for your tremendous contribution to the world population. You will never be forgotten
October 19, 2010
My baby girl had a bone marrow transplant and is alive today because of Dr. Mathe. Thank you so much. My condolences to the family. Please know that the world is a better place because of your loved one.
October 19, 2010
As the wife of a bone marrow transplant recipient who has multiple myeloma,sincerest thanks to a great man who enriched the world;rest in peace Monsieur Mathe
October 19, 2010
May you find peace in your time of sorrow. The world is a better place because of the life he lived My prayers are with you in your time of grief God bless. Pensacola , Fl
Roy Weiner
October 19, 2010
Merci, professeur, pour tout ce que vous m'ont donné et pour tout ce que vous avez donné au monde.
Votre plus reconnaissants stagiaire,
M B
October 19, 2010
My condolences to the family, I'm sure the world's prayers are with you at this difficult time as are mine. Thank you Dr. Mathe for your contribution to the world, there are so many alive today because of you, God Bless you.
October 19, 2010
Prayers for the Drs loved ones and Thank You from the whole world. God Bless you all with his Peace, (Cleveland OH)
Dorothy Dyer
October 19, 2010
Thank you Dr. Mathe, and bless you for your contribution to the treatment of cancer.
Nurse
October 19, 2010
Celebrating a life well-lived. I know that the tears are flowing but know this he was a wonderful instrument used to help many. God has promised a time when man will not have to be concerned with sickness and disease. He shares this promise with us at Revelation 21:4 "And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more neither will mourning nor outcry, nor pain be any more.The former things have passed away."
Tom
October 19, 2010
Thank you Georges Mathe.
M. P.
October 19, 2010
I will be undergoing this kind of procedure very soon. Thank you good Doctor.
R Golay
October 18, 2010
To the the family of Georges Mathe - May God give you peace and comfort through his word and the Lord Jesus Christ during this time of sorrow, I know that Georges will be missed by many
E. Cortright
October 18, 2010
As a AML leukemia patient, whose life was just saved by a bone marrow transplant, my sympathies go out to the friends and family of Georges Mathe. What an amazing contribution to the treatment of cancer and other illnesses which benefit from transplant.
October 18, 2010
As a 15 year survivor of a bone marrow (stem cell) transplant for Leukemia, I applaud you for the intelligence and foresight you provided for other physicians to be able to carry on your work. You were truly a blessing to the entire world. Thank you from all blood cancer survivors. May you rest in peace that you richly deserve. May God be with your family and give them peace also. Pat Webb, Abilene, Tx.
Victor Bradford
October 18, 2010
With our sympathy to the family and friends of this person who helped so many people live better lives, and who served as an inspiration to so many health care workers. Thanks for helping and supporting his work and his life.
A Vantreese
October 18, 2010
Thank you for all you have done for people with blood cancers and the inspiration you have been to others! May you rest in peace.
M`Victoria
October 18, 2010
Inspired to care for others 'thankyou
sentiments to MrGeorges Mathe family
GodBless you
L Ervin
October 18, 2010
To family and dear friends of Georges, my sympathy is towards you. We are promised that God will put an end to illness and death and make all things new. Revelation 23:4,5 ; Matthew 6:9
Elaine Aldridge
October 18, 2010
Thank you, Georges, for your labor and your concern for humanity.
October 18, 2010
YOU WERE TRULY A BLESSING TO THIS WORLD. REST IN PEACE. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE SAVED AND WILL SAVE........ FLORIDA
October 18, 2010
May you rest in peace,George!you have made a major contribution in the fight against cancer!
Debby Weimer
October 18, 2010
To a great man with a huge commitment in the fight against cancer. May God bless you.
Angie Farmer
October 18, 2010
Thank you for your lifes work. My son is a stem cell transplant survivor. May God give you a very special welcome into heaven.
Don Ullery
October 18, 2010
Dr. Mathe. God Bless You. My nephew Eric Kaari is alive & well today (11 years) after receiving bone marrow from his brother. Our family & the thousands of familes whose loved ones are alive & well today thank you and offer our sympathy & prayers to your family.
Rebecca Millspaw
October 18, 2010
May God welcome you with open arms into Heaven. Without you who knows how many more people we would have lost to cancer and Leukemia and other blood diseases. I have an Uncle who is fighting Leukemia right now. Thanks for everything you have done. May you rest in peace.
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