Lauren V. Ackerman; Cancer Pathologist, Author

Lauren V. Ackerman, 88, a cancer pathologist and author of medical textbooks. Ackerman had been a professor of pathology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1973. He taught at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis from 1948 to 1973. His books include “Surgical Pathology,” published in 1953, and “Cancer: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis,” written with Dr. Juan del Regado. In New York City on Tuesday of cancer.