The Cancer Letter staff were finalists for six 2024 Dateline Awards from the Washington, DC, Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists—three for journalism, and three for design—and won first place for two.
On Dec. 21, 1973, Jerry D. Boyd ran the first printing of a little newsletter that would become The Cancer Letter.
The Cancer Letter staff members were finalists for seven 2023 Dateline Awards from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists—four for journalism, and three for design—and won first place for three.
The facts of my story about UCSD Moores Cancer Center in last week’s issue of The Cancer Letter (June 2, 2023) don’t seem to be in dispute.
The Cancer Letter staff won seven first-place Dateline Awards from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists—three for journalism and four for design.
In 1968, my country went to war. As Soviet tanks rolled toward Prague, newspapers described the invasion of Czechoslovakia as an act of “friendship.”
If 2020 was a year of reckoning, 2021 was a year of action—and major milestones for The Cancer Letter and the cancer community.
Forty-nine years and a few days after the signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971, we launched the Cancer History Project. One year and 11,894 articles later, we have built a shared, collaborative, and unprecedented resource.
Two years have gone by since we put together our first summer reading issue in 2019—and by the gods, what a ride these two years have been!
The Cancer Letter received eight 2021 Dateline Awards from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists—five for journalism, and three for illustration.