Boris P. Matveev, director of urological clinic of N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Center is one of the founders of the national oncologic urology. He was born on September 7, 1934 in the village of Vadinsk in the Penza region in a family of a teacher and State Insurance inspector.
His parents had already had four children, all boys, and Boris became the fifth and the youngest among them. He always tried to pattern himself on his older brother - a military doctor, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Medical Service. In 1951 Boris entered the Kursk Medical Institute and after graduation in 1957 he went to work in the Tula region, where he worked as a surgeon in Plavsk district hospital for two years, and from 1959 to 1960 as an urologist in Shchekinsk city hospital.
In 1960, he enrolled in a clinical internship at the urological clinic of the First Moscow Medical Institute, which at that time was headed by professor I.M. Epstein. In 1962 Boris Matveev came to abdominal department of the Cancer Research Center n.a. N.N. Blokhin, headed by professor V.I. Janishewski and MD E.B. Marinbah. In 1967 he defended his master’s thesis, and in 1977 his doctoral thesis. In 1980 Boris Matveev headed the newly created Department of urologic oncology. Since then, he has devoted himself entirely to urologic oncology.
Boris Matveev was interested in all aspects of oncologic urology. In the department of urology of NN Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center RAMS, headed by Boris Matveev, were developed and implemented surgery interventions for cancer of kidney, bladder, prostate, testicles and penis. Now active methods of drug and radiation treatment are used, interdisciplinary problems are being studied, new diagnostic methods and therapeutic algorithms are being developed.
Professor B.P. Matveev is the author of over 200 scientific works, 6 monographs, a number of reference books. Under his guidance there were defended more than 30 master's and doctoral theses. In his clinic dozens of doctors, interns and graduate students were trained, many of whom are now themselves head urological centers. In 1994, B.P. Matveev was awarded the title of Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation. Professor B.P. Matveev is an active member of many national and international urological organizations, including the Russian Society of Urologists, European and the American Urological Association. For many years B.P. Matveev is cooperating with the German Society of Urology. In 2000 he was elected an honorary associate member of the German Society of Urology.
B.P. Matveev is a talented, never resting on the laurels physician and scientist, undying interest in science distinguishes him, he hasn’t lost the ability to sympathize and empathize with patients.
