An award-winning investigative documentary film about power morcellation—a once-popular “minimally invasive” surgical procedure—is now available on major streaming platforms.
Karen E. Knudsen was named CEO of the American Cancer Society and its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
Today Dr. Roswell Park is remembered mostly as the founder of the world’s first cancer research institute, which still bears his name proudly to this day in Buffalo, NY, but his contributions to medicine extend much further.
Lori J. Pierce, MD, FASTRO, FASCO began her term as the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 57th president on June 1, 2020, making her ASCO’s first African American woman to hold this prestigious title.
In 1995, a group of doctors who advocated treating breast cancer with high dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation made an attempt to include that highly toxic procedure in the guidelines of the nascent National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
Mary Lasker: “If you can’t get it on a three-by-five-inch filing card, you’ve lost the message.”
Late in 1997, when Bruce Ross told me that Bill McGivney would replace him as CEO of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, I thought the recruitment made sense.
Cancer History Project editorial board member Robert Peter Gale shares his perspective on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, marking the 10th anniversary of the disaster.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an organization that promulgates guidelines based on standards of care provided at academic institutions in the U.S., is indisputably one of the pillars of oncology today.
This column in The Cancer Letter features the latest posts to the Cancer History Project by our growing list of contributors.
