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Died: January 20, 2021. PROFESSOR Gordon McVie, who has died aged 75, was a Scottish clinician and campaigner who became one of the world’s leading authorities on the treatment of cancer and, for many years in the UK, was the public face of the battle against it. He believed in fighting the disease on many fronts and in taking every new opportunity to do so. He was a clinician first and foremost, but he was also a researcher, campaigner, educator, publicist, and innovator, renowned as a master of the soundbite. He fought for better treatments, and more money, and as Director General of the Cancer Research Campaign, saw more than 60 new drugs proceed from the lab to clinical trial. Research, he believed, was the key to success and he pushed for many more patients to be involved in trials.