Frederick Appelbaum, executive vice president, professor in the Clinical Research Division, and Metcalfe Family/Frederick Appelbaum Endowed Chair in Cancer Research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, is the author of “Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution.”
Alan Blum, director of The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, documents King Charles’s track record of anti-smoking advocacy, which represents a break with the royal family’s history with tobacco.
The following reflections on the Association of American Cancer Institutes from AACI are excerpted from “The History of the Association of American Cancer Institutes” by Donald L. Trump and Eric T. Rosenthal.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy stood in Houston and challenged the nation to undertake bold and drastic technological advancement to achieve the goal of reaching the moon. The speech he gave that day was considered the original moonshot address.
Sandra Hillburn walked miles every day with a friend. She hiked mountains, played golf and tennis, and skied. In 2005, those things began to feel impossible.
It was around 2018, and the new patient volumes at Levine Cancer Institute had increased from about 6,000 new cases/year to just under 18,000.
In the first report from the President’s Cancer Panel, Benno C. Schmidt outlined his vision for the National Cancer Program, as defined by the National Cancer Act of 1971
This point is easily overlooked: Monica Bertagnolli has two jobs, not one. She is the director of the National Cancer Institute and head of the National Cancer Program.
If advertising is to be believed, in 1954, the American Medical Association ran a test comparing filtered cigarettes.
The first evidence of cancer—and cancer treatment—in humans dates back to the Pyramid Age, writes Jaya M. Satagopan, PhD, full member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health.
