[Magnus Haaland--a pioneer in international cancer research]

Pathologist and bacteriologist Magnus Haaland (1876-1935) was a pioneer in European experimental cancer research. For eight years he worked in some of the most prominent research institutions in France, Germany and England. He worked with Elie Metschnikow and Amedée Borrel at Institut Pasteur in Paris, with Paul Ehrlich in Frankfurt am Main and with Erwin Bashford at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. From 1911 to his death in 1935, he was the head of the Gade Institute in Bergen. He became a pioneer in Norwegian bacteriology research and made particular contributions to the eradication of typhoid fever in Norway. His main scientific work was on the progression of experimental transplantable tumours in mice, patterns of metastasis, and experimental hyperthermia treatment. He gave the first description of neoplastic reticuloses in mice.