Author: Arthur Schatzkin

Arthur Gould Schatzkin Date of Death: 20-Jan-2011 College: Calhoun (This memorial appeared in the New York Times, February 11, 2011.) Dr. Arthur Schatzkin, an epidemiologist whose investigations into the connections between diet and cancer yielded new analytic tools and led to the discovery that eating fiber did not prevent the recurrence of polyps in the colon, died on Jan. 20 in Chevy Chase, Md. The cause was brain cancer, said the National Cancer Institute, where…