Dr Helen S. King was a South African oncologist and anti-apartheid campaigner. She was married to Edward King, former Dean of Cape Town. She was awarded the Order of Simon of Cyrene in 1996.
King died in 2015.
Selected works
King co-authored a number of papers in the field of radiotherapy including:
Jacobs, Peter; King, Helen S.; Dent, David M.; Hayes, Malcolm (1985). "VP-16-213 in the treatment of stage III and IV diffuse large cell lymphoma". Cancer. 56 (5): 1006–1013. doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19850901)56:5<1006::AID-CNCR2820560505>3.0.CO;2-7. ISSN 0008-543X. PMID 3893681.
Krige, J. E. J.; Isaacs, S.; Hudson, D. A.; King, Helen S.; Strover, R. M.; Johnson, Carol A. (1991). "Delay in the diagnosis of cutaneous malignant melanoma. A prospective study in 250 patients". Cancer. 68 (9): 2064–2068. doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19911101)68:9<2064::AID-CNCR2820680937>3.0.CO;2-3. ISSN 0008-543X. PMID 1913555.
Jacobs, Peter; Stuart Rutherford, G.; King, Helen S.; Vincent, Mark (1991). "Methotrexate encephalopathy". European Journal of Cancer and Clinical Oncology. 27 (8): 1061–1062. doi:10.1016/0277-5379(91)90285-L. ISSN 0277-5379. PMID 1832896.