V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist who discovered selective estrogen receptor modulators, died on June 9. Jordan, a professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who was credited with discovery of tamoxifen, was 76. An obituary appears in this issue. Jordan appeared on the Cancer History Project podcast in 2022 to discuss […]
The Cancer Letter staff were finalists for six 2024 Dateline Awards from the Washington, DC, Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists—three for journalism, and three for design—and won first place for two.
Don Dizon, director of the Pelvic Malignancies Program at Lifespan Cancer Institute, head of community outreach and engagement at Legorreta Cancer Center, and director of medical oncology at Rhode Island Hospital, spoke with NFN Scout, executive director of the National LGBT Cancer Network, on Your Stories: Conquering Cancer podcast. In this episode, published June 25, […]
The American Cancer Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology have combined their cancer information resources, which will be available at no cost to the public on cancer.org. The collaboration, which combines the two organizations’ sites—ACS’s cancer.org and ASCO’s cancer.net—was announced at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago May 1. Cancer.org is now […]
As over 40,000 oncology professionals descend on Chicago’s McCormick Place yet again for the 60th American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, we invite you to look back at The Cancer Letter and the Cancer History Project’s past coverage of the event.
If lifetime impact could be quantified by pages in The Cancer Letter, no person has been more revered than Waun Ki Hong: following Hong’s death in 2019, The Cancer Letter published no fewer than six obituaries. Now, you can hear his story in his own words.
Lillian L. Siu discovered her passion while perusing employment ads in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Todd Golub, director and founding core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, appeared on the Cancer Luminaries podcast, a series launched by the UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center to mark its 50th year as a National Cancer Institute-designated center.
Over the past three years, the American Cancer Society has recovered from the fundraising decline brought on by COVID-19 and has reversed the years-long fundraising slump in public support.
UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched the Cancer Luminaries podcast series to mark its 50th year as a National Cancer Institute-designated center.
