In 2018, Narjust Florez was attending a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and on the stage were three physicians—one woman and two men.
In September, Norm Coleman received great news: he qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in New Zealand.
As a new deputy director at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Monica Baskin has assumed a level of responsibility that is unusual, if not unprecedented, for a population scientist at an NCI-designated cancer center.
This Women’s History Month, the Cancer History Project is documenting the lives of women who have shaped oncology.
On her first day of medical school at the University of Virginia in 1963, Vivian Pinn waited for the other students who looked like her to show up.
A cruel reminder crept in alongside the joy that overcame Shauna Erickson-Abou Zahr and Abdallah Abou Zahr at the birth of their daughter, Nadia Carmel, on Jan. 11.
As a student at MIT in the 1970s, Roderic Pettigrew was writing his PhD thesis on how a controlled nuclear reaction in the brain, boron neutron activation therapy, could be used to treat glioblastoma multiforme.
Commemorate the legacy of Black women in oncology with these highlights from the Cancer History Project.
Guest EditorBlack history month---------------------------------------------------Robert A. Winn, MDDirector and Lipman Chair in Oncology, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Senior associate dean for cancer innovation, Professor of pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, VCU School of MedicineThis month, Robert A. Winn returns to his role as guest editor of The Cancer Letter and the Cancer History Project during Black History Month.
Edith P. Mitchell, a medical oncologist, champion of health equity, and the first woman physician to attain the rank of U.S. Air Force brigadier general, died unexpectedly Jan. 21. She was 76.