Donald Morton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American oncologist
Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1934
Place of Birth: Richwood, West Virginia, United States
Date of Death: 10-Jan-2014
Profession: oncologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Donald Morton
- Donald Lee Morton (September 12, 1934 - January 10, 2014) was an American Surgical Oncologist who was best known for developing sentinel lymph node evaluation, a procedure that, by some estimates, saves the U.S.
- healthcare system nearly $4 billion annually in the treatment of melanoma and breast cancer.
- At the time of his death, he was Chief of the Melanoma Program at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California.
- He published in excess of 600 articles in peer reviewed journals and received funding for his research from the National Institutes of Health for 35 years.
- As Director of the John Wayne Cancer Institute's Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program, Dr.
- Morton trained more than 100 postdoctoral fellows, most of whom hold academic positions in medical schools or cancer institutes.
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