Timeline for Ewan Cameron
| 1922 | Born in Glasgow, Scotland on July 31. |
| 1943 | Begins a two-year period of student internships in surgery and medicine at several Scottish hospitals. |
| 1944 | Receives bachelors degrees in medicine and chemistry from the University of Glasgow. (These degrees are equivalent to the North American M.D. degree) |
| 1945 | Begins his three-year Army service in Burma. For twenty years following his discharge from active service, Cameron will remain a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army Reserve, under the title Senior Surgical Specialist. |
| 1948 | Continues his surgical training in the Stirling Royal Infirmary and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Is also appointed Surgical Registrar at the Western Infirmary of Glasgow, serves for six-months with the Department of Radiotherapy, and assumes teaching duties a the University of Glasgow. |
| 1949 | Qualifies as a Fellow qua Surgeon of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. |
| 1950 | Named a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. |
| 1952 | Named Senior Surgical Registrar at the Royal Alexandra Infirmary in Paisley, Scotland, where he will remain for four years. |
| 1956 | Accepts a position as Consultant Surgeon, (aged 33, he is the youngest Consultant Surgeon in all of the United Kingdom) and later Senior Consultant Surgeon, at Vale of Leven District General Hospital in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Cameron's formal association with the Vale of Leven Hospital will last until 1982. His early research interests focus on the diagnostic and prognostic value of serum glycoprotein concentrations in patients afflicted with an assortment of diseases, including cancer. |
| 1963 | Named a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow. |
| 1966 | Publishes the book Hyaluronidase and cancer, New York: Pergamon Press. Cameron's book advances the theory that the malignant invasiveness of cancer cells might be combated by manipulating hyaluronidase inhibitor, a naturally-occurring substance that controls the hyaluronidase enzyme liberated by malignant tumors. The theory, which Cameron has been developing for at least eleven years, is founded on the notion of fighting cancer through the strengthening of the human body's natural protective mechanisms. |
| 1971 | Begins testing his hypothesis that vitamin C is
required for the body's synthesis of hyaluronidase inhibitor. First contacts Linus Pauling to discuss the positive results of his daily administration of ten grams of vitamin C to terminally-ill cancer patients being treated at Vale of Leven Hospital. |
| 1973 | With Linus Pauling, publishes "Ascorbic acid and the glycosaminoglycans: an orthomolecular approach to cancer and other diseases," Oncology, 27: 181-192. This is the first in a series of ten papers that Cameron and Pauling will publish over the next nine years on the potential value of vitamin C in the treatment of cancer. |
| 1974 | Begins a six-year term as Chairman of the District Medical Advisory Committee of the Argyll and Clyde Health Board, Scotland. |
| 1975 | Named Honorary Consultant in General Surgery to the Royal Navy in Scotland. |
| 1977 | Receives the Queen's Coronation Medal. |
| 1978 | With his wife Lillias "Phemie" Cameron, moves to
California after accepting a one-year appointment at the Linus Pauling
Institute for Science and Medicine. Receives the Annual Award of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 1979 | With Linus Pauling, publishes the book
Cancer and Vitamin C, Menlo Park,
California: Linus Pauling Institute. The book will be reprinted by
Warner Books in 1981, and will also be translated into French and
Japanese. Accepts a five-year appointment as Research Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. |
| 1982 | Appointed Medical Director and Senior Research Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto, California. |
| 1983 | With colleagues at the Linus Pauling Institute, begins actively researching the potential use of vitamin C in the treatment of AIDS. |
| 1991 | Dies on March 21, of prostate cancer. He is survived by his second wife, Constance, as well as a son and a daughter from his first marriage to Phemie Cameron, who died in 1985. |
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