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and had to be winched down on a stretcher by abseiling rescuers through a trapdoor in the floor of the tower. It was impossible to take him down via the normal route of 120 steps in a narrow circular stairwell. The persistence and skill of his ringing companions, St Mary's Tower Captain Murray-Luke
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in the same hospital. On 2 January 1967, Alan married Marylon Slade Bodkin, who was born in Canberra 31 August 1943. They have three children. Also a bellringer and statistician, Marylon Coates is the author of many statistical studies on the incidence and mortality rates from cancer in Australia.
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and one of the primary authors of its resulting "consensus paper", a publication that is the "...clinically useful updated breast cancer treatment consensus for the majority of patients treated outside of clinical trials (>90%) in most countries."
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2006, the American Society for Clinical oncology (ASCO) Distinguished Service Award for Scientific Leadership; the gold medal of the Australian Cancer Society; the Tom Reeve Oration Award of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia
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2015, the St.Gallen Breast Cancer Award for his "commitment to international scientific trials and his focus on the quality of life of women afflicted with this cancer".
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in Australia, then at the Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center in the United States. He returned to Australia in 1978 and for 25 years was a medical oncologist at the
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The Australia & New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group (ANZBCTG) offers an annual award "The Alan Coates Award for Excellence in Clinical Trials Research".
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and the Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Sydney. His collaborations with international organisations in clinical trials include the
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Courtney-Pratt) Coates, who had been married the previous year. Younger brother Gordon was born three years later on
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CPR. In recognition of this, ANZAB now provides for first-aid and CPR training for two members in each
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During his term as CEO of the Australian Cancer Council he was responsible for reports to Australia's
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Peard and bellringer Mark Ferguson, were credited with saving his life by immediately administering
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Alan (right background, conducting) and Maryon Coates (right foreground) teaching bellringing at
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for "service to medicine in the field of oncology, particularly through breast cancer research".
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at Sydney University, preparing to participate in a graduation ceremony for medical students.
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His published research papers appear across a wide range of journals, among which are
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Alan and his twin brother Roger were born on 27 June 1943 at St George's Hospital in
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In 2015 Coates survived a serious heart attack while at bellringing practice in
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Professor Coates was until 2015 a co-chair of the biennial
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The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers
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Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research
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FRACP

Kew, Victoria
University of Melbourne
Order of Australia
University of Sydney
Garvan Institute
Cancer Council Australia
Voice introduction
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FRACP
clinical oncology
Cancer Council Australia
American Society of Clinical Oncology
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
University of Sydney
Public Health
Statistical Society of Australia
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
melanoma
tumour immunology
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
European Institute of Oncology
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Boston

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