In July, The Cancer History Project is focusing on the founders of cancer centers. Joseph R. Bertino was the founding director of Yale Cancer Center, who served in that role from 1973 to 1975 and remained at Yale through 1986.
Monica M. Bertagnolli, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, stands poised to become the first woman and the first chair of a clinical trials cooperative group to be named director of the National Cancer Institute.
Herman Suit, the great father figure of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and one of the colossi of American oncology, has just died at the age of 93. He lost his beloved wife and partner Joan last year and since then has been in assisted living close to family in California.
In July, the Cancer History Project is highlighting the founders of cancer centers and cancer organizations, including John Ultmann, founding director of University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, now University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center—and the first subscriber to The Cancer Letter.
As conservative legislatures take the cue from the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade by enacting abortion restrictions, oncologists in many states are scrambling to figure out how to best care for their pregnant patients, said Alice Mims, a hematologist-oncologist at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James.
A journey through cancer treatment can be grueling, unforgiving, and treacherous for both patient and physician. But what happens when a pregnancy complicates the treatment?
Following the Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Cancer History Project has created a timeline of the regulatory history of women’s reproductive rights based on news stories from The Cancer Letter that track the impact of “pro-life” policies on cancer research and cancer care.
In July, the Cancer History Project will be highlighting the founding—and founders—of oncology’s institutions. Duke Cancer Institute became an NCI-designated cancer center in 1973, two years after the signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971.
When Jill Hawkins realized that she was six weeks pregnant this March, her oncologist gave her two options.
Now that the constitutional right to abortion has been eliminated, U.S. healthcare providers have to choose one of three options: give up abortion services, relocate, or wrangle with enforcement and unfriendly state legislatures.
