Melvin Tefft
# Melvin Tefft

Melvin Tefft (20 November 1935 - 11 may 2003), was an American physician who specialised in radiation oncology in children at the Boston Children's Hospital and later at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was the first to report an extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma in 1969.

## Early life and education

Melvin Tefft was born on 20 November 1935 in Boston. In 1954 he received a bachelors degree from Harvard College, and in 1958 gained a medical diploma from Boston University School of Medicine.

## Career

Tefft completed his internship at Boston City Hospital before taking up his residency in radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also spent a year as a NIH fellow. Through the 1960s, at the Boston Children's Hospital, he progressed from assistant professor to chief of the division of radiology. He was influenced by Giulio D'Angio.

In 1970, he was at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

## Selected publications

* Tefft, M.; Vawter, G. F.; Mitus, A. (June 1969). "Paravertebral "round cell" tumors in children". Radiology. 92 (7): 1501–1509. doi:10.1148/92.7.1501. ISSN 0033-8419. PMID 5799839.
