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{{Short description|Indian oncologist and medical writer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Darab Jehangir Jussawala
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1915|04|13}}
| birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1999|01|29|1915|04|13}}
| death_place = India
| occupation = Oncologist
| yearsactive = 1948–1999
| known for = Cancer care
| spouse = Gertrude Darab
| parents = Jehangir Bezonjee Jussawala<br>Shirinbai
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br>Dhanwantari Award<br>[[Indian Council of Medical Research|ICMR]] Raja Ravi Shersingh of Kalsia Memorial Award
}}
'''Darab Jehangir Jussawala''' (1915–1999)<ref name="D. J. Jussawalla – An obituary"/> was an Indian medical-cum-surgical oncologist, medical writer and the director of [[Tata Memorial Centre]].<ref name="Dr. D.J.Jussawalla">{{cite web | url=https://tmc.gov.in/index.php/aboutus/past-directors/159-past-directors/291-dr-d-j-jussawalla | title=Dr. D.J.Jussawalla | publisher=Tata Memorial Centre | date=2016 | access-date=27 April 2016 | archive-date=28 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428150204/https://tmc.gov.in/index.php/aboutus/past-directors/159-past-directors/291-dr-d-j-jussawalla | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was the co-founder of [[Indian Cancer Society]], along with [[Naval Tata]] in 1951,<ref name="Profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiancancersociety.org/about-ics/ics-profile.aspx | title=Profile | publisher=Indian Cancer Society | date=2016 | access-date=27 April 2016}}</ref> and the founder of the Indian Cancer Rehabilitation Centre in [[Parel]], [[Mumbai]], in 1956, the first such centre in India and the largest in Asia.<ref name="Deceased Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.org.in/deceaseddetail.php?id=N830352 | title=Deceased Fellows | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=27 April 2016 | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812215841/http://insaindia.org.in/deceaseddetail.php?id=N830352 | archive-date=12 August 2016 }}</ref> He served as the director of ''Lady Ratan Tata Medical and Research Center'' and as the honorary consultant at two Mumbai hospitals, [[Breach Candy Hospital]] and [[Jaslok Hospital]].{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} An elected fellow of the [[Royal Society of Medicine]], [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]], [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the [[American College of Surgeons]], he was a recipient of the Dhanwantari Award as well as several Oration Awards.<ref name="Deceased Fellows" /> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1975, for his contributions to Medicine.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Darab Jussawala was born on 13 April 1915<ref name="D. J. Jussawalla – An obituary"/> to Jehangir Bezonjee Jussawalla and Shirinbai in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], in the western Indian state of [[Maharashtra]] and graduated in medicine in 1938 from [[Bombay University]] after which he secured a master's degree from the same university in 1942.<ref name="D. J. Jussawalla – An obituary"/> Subsequently, he obtained the Fellowship of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]] in medical and surgical oncology<ref name="Deceased Fellows" /> and started his career as a surgeon at [[Tata Memorial Hospital]] in 1948, becoming one of the first surgical oncologists in the country.<ref name="D. J. Jussawalla – An obituary">{{cite web | url=http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/sept25/articles31.htm | title=D. J. Jussawalla – An obituary | publisher=Indian Institute of Science | date=2016 | access-date=27 April 2016 | archive-date=14 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514033232/http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/sept25/articles31.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> He served the institution as a surgeon till 1973 when he became the director of the hospital, a post he held till 1980 after which he served as a professor of oncology till 1983 and continued his association with the hospital till 1986. In 1986, he moved to ''Lady Ratan Tata Medical and Research Center'', but was associated with [[Breach Candy Hospital]] and [[Jaslok Hospital]] as a consultant oncologist.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

In 1951, with the assistance of [[Naval Tata]], Jussawala founded Indian Cancer Society, the first non-profit organization for fighting the disease of cancer and served as its founder secretary from 1953.<ref name="From the Desk of Honorary Secretary and Managing Trustee">{{cite journal | url=http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?cn05001 | title=From the Desk of Honorary Secretary and Managing Trustee | author=Kurkure Arun | journal=Indian Journal of Cancer | date=January 2005 | volume=42 | issue=1 | doi=10.4103/0019-509X.15092 | hdl=1807/5312 | doi-access=free | hdl-access=free }}</ref> Five years later, under the aegis of the society, he established the ''Indian Cancer Rehabilitation Centre'', the first centre for the rehabilitation of cancer patients in India, which was also the largest of its kind in Asia.<ref name="Deceased Fellows" /> It was again under the scope of services of the Indian Cancer Society that he contributed research data to the first ''Population-based Cancer Registry'' in 1963, the same year as he founded the ''Indian Journal of Cancer'', followed by the establishment of a comprehensive cancer rehabilitation centre in 1968.<ref name="Memorials">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiancancersociety.org/about-ics/memorials.aspx | title=Memorials | publisher=Indian Cancer Society | date=2016 | access-date=27 April 2016 | archive-date=16 May 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516233755/http://www.indiancancersociety.org/about-ics/memorials.aspx | url-status=dead }}</ref> The ''Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO)'' (1977) and the ''Lady Ratan Tata Medical and Research Center'' (1984) were also reportedly established by Jussawala<ref name="Memorials" /> and he was credited with the establishment of the first cytology laboratory and the first chemotherapy facility in India, both at [[Tata Memorial Centre]].<ref name="Deceased Fellows" /> He served as a member of the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) Expert Committee on Cancer and as the corresponding Fellow of [[Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland]]. He was also a member of the Association of Surgeons of India and the Chief Editor of the ''Indian Journal of Cancer''. The ''Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer'' is a textbook on oncology published by him in 1980.<ref name="Deceased Fellows" /> Besides, he published several medical articles published in peer reviewed journals<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Jussawalla=3ADarab_Jehangir=3A=3A.html | title=Browse by Fellow | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences Publications | date=2016 | access-date=28 April 2016}}</ref> and his writings have been cited in many oncological texts.<ref name="GuptaHamner1992">{{cite book|author1=Prakash C. Gupta|author2=James E. Hamner|title=Control of Tobacco-related Cancers and Other Diseases: Proceedings of an International Symposium, January 15-19, 1990, TIFR, Bombay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Zqo67BjH7UC&pg=PA146|year=1992|publisher=Prakash C. Gupta|isbn=978-0-19-562961-3|pages=146–}}</ref><ref name="SchwemmleAigner2012">{{cite book|author1=K. Schwemmle|author2=K. Aigner|title=Vascular Perfusion in Cancer Therapy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFoyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT38|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-82025-0|pages=38–}}</ref><ref name="Hurt2012">{{cite book|author=Raymond L. Hurt|title=Management of Oesophageal Carcinoma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8x9BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4471-3153-3|pages=53–}}</ref>

Jusswala died on 29 January 1999, survived by his wife, Gertrude.<ref name="D. J. Jussawalla – An obituary"/>

== Awards and honours ==
The [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] elected Jussawala as their fellow in 1966<ref name="Founder Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://nams-india.in/downloads/obit.pdf | title=Founder Fellows | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=26 April 2016}}</ref> and two other Indian science academies, the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="Fellow profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Jussawalla,_Dr_Darab_Jehangir | title=Fellow profile | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=28 April 2016}}</ref> and the [[Indian National Science Academy]] followed suit by electing him as a fellow in 1975 and 1983 respectively.<ref name="Deceased Fellows" /> He was also a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Medicine]] and the [[American College of Surgeons]]. He delivered several award orations and Dr. Munsiff Oration Award (1968), Dr. Ernest Borges Oration Award (1974), Dr. Bhansali Oration Award (1975), Dr. B. C. Roy Memorial Oration Award (1976), Dr. N. C. Joshi Memorial Oration Award (1977), Mrs. Vimla Shah Oration Award (1979) and Sandoz Oration Award (1983) are some of the notable ones.<ref name="Deceased Fellows" />

The [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] (ICMR) awarded him the ''Raja Ravi Shersingh of Kalsia Memorial Award'' in 1971<ref name="Deceased Fellows" /> and the Government of India included him the [[Indian honours system|Republic Day Honours]] list for the civilian award of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1975.<ref name="Padma Awards" /> He was also a recipient of the annual award (1981) of the Danwanthari Foundation.<ref name="Deceased Fellows" />

== See also ==
{{portal|India|Medicine}}

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