ABSTRACT
Grantly Taylor, MD, a cancer surgeon of renown and head of the Tumor Clinic at the MGH in the 1950s, brought in to the Philips House a prominent society orchestra leader for a planned resection of a recurrent sacral chordoma. Because of involvement by the tumor of the sacral neural plexus and foramina, Dr. Taylor invited Dr. William Sweet, head of Neurosurgery and a meticulous operator, to join him in the operating room.
