The initial foray into genomic sequencing two decades ago has led to the discovery of key driver mutations and spurred drug development, thereby transforming the management of imminently lethal diseases.
By the end of World War I, the use of chemical weapons had resulted in over one million casualties on both sides, including many disabled and wounded. Through a series of unintended events, these chemical weapons set in motion discoveries that led to the development of chemotherapy.
In May 1991, I sat in a law firm conference room in Washington, DC, listening to a pitch from a small group of women who had the idea to launch a political advocacy movement around breast cancer. One of those women was Dr. Susan Love. The person next to me nudged me with her elbow and whispered, “She is famous. She wrote this unbelievable book.”
Susan Love, breast oncologist, founder of the breast cancer advocacy movement, and chief visionary officer of the Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, died July 2.
I have no doubt that our professional associations in cancer research and oncology and our NCI in the U.S. care about the plight of cancer scientists and oncologists who have been displaced due to war or violence in their home countries.
Radiation oncologist William Blackstock died from his long battle with prostate cancer June 18. He was 60.
The effort to defeat cancer is a visceral need for each of us, fueled by the memories of the myriad of special individuals we cared for who passed from this earth due to this terrible disease.
NCI has contributed the 2017-2022 annual issues of Milestones, an annual magazine from NCI’s Center for Cancer Research, to the Cancer History Project.
Bill Nelson, director of Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, is conducting a series of interviews commemorating the cancer center’s 50th anniversary.
Alan Blum, director of The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, documents advertisements from tobacco companies during “an era not very long ago when a son giving his dad a gift of a carton of cigarettes was as American as apple pie.”
