Sir Michael Peckham obituary

Oncologist who pioneered modern treatments for testicular cancer – the jockey Bob Champion was one of his patientsMichael Peckham, who has died aged 86, did much to advance the acceptance of evidence-based medicine. This approach – using well-controlled clinical trial data for improving the treatment of patients – has never received greater attention than now, during the Covid-19 pandemic.In 1986 he moved from trailblazing clinical work as a professor at the Institute of Cancer