Dwight Tosh had grown so weak that he was unable to walk. Still, doctors at the rural Arkansas hospital—where he lay in bed for weeks in 1962—were unable to diagnose him.
The breast cancer community has lost a friend, a partner, and a dedicated patient advocate.
In September, the Cancer History Project is highlighting the turning points of oncology—the people, research, discoveries, and moments in history that broke the mold.
Leslie Bernstein, PhD, a trailblazing cancer epidemiologist, died July 28. She was 82.
Richard B. Warnecke, PhD, a longtime member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center and a national leader in cancer control research, died Aug. 19. He was 84.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital mourns the loss of Zoltán Patay, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging. Dr. Patay died suddenly July 22, while visiting family in Budapest. He was 65.
In September, The Cancer History Project is inviting contributors to discuss the turning points of oncology—the people, research, discoveries, and moments in history that broke the mold.
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to appoint Monica Bertagnolli as the 16th director of the National Cancer Institute—and the first woman and first chair of a clinical trials cooperative group to be named to the role.
The roof of the Radiation Therapy Department of the Mariupol Municipal Interdistrict Regional Oncologic Dispensary, the parts that aren’t caved in, looks like a sieve.
Can you imagine, as a radiation oncologist, you have to shelter your patients in a Co-60 vault to protect them from missiles, provide them with water by melting snow, feed them, keep them warm by using a backup power generator, and evacuate them just two hours before the missile destroys the radiation oncology department?
