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.
The American Cancer Society’s key stakeholders are people with cancer and their families.
Last week’s Supreme Court decision to overrule Roe v. Wade returned the power to regulate reproductive health to individual states.
Roe v. Wade is about more than just abortion.
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, The Cancer Letter has compiled comments from U.S. cancer centers, advocacy groups, professional societies, and medical journals.
Selwyn M. Vickers was named president and chief executive officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Alicia M. Terando was named the San Gabriel Valley regional medical director for surgical oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer at the Huntington Cancer Center.
