William Sampson Handley MD, MS, FRCS (12 April 1872 – 1962) was an English surgeon who influenced the development of cancer surgery.
Sampson Handley trained as a medical doctor at Guy's Hospital from 1889 where he qualified in 1895 and became an MD the following year.
[1][2] In 1906 he published Cancer of the Breast and its Operative Treatment which created his reputation with the wider medical establishment.
[1] In 1911 he was awarded the Walker Prize by the Royal College of Surgeons for advancing the knowledge of the pathology and therapeutics of cancer.
[2] For his work he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a foreign Member of the Academy of Medicine of Rome.