John Mark Cleland, the first man to be cured of metastatic testicular cancer, died Feb. 7, 2022 in Indianapolis. He was 71.
Join Karen Knudsen, CEO of the American Cancer Society, May 9 at 6 p.m. EST in conversation about health equity as it relates to working with communities and advocating for access to care.
When a Galapagos tortoise suffering from sarcoma needed help in 1983, zookeepers at the Staten Island Zoo called Mark Dewhirst, DVM, PhD, a young scientist at the University of Arizona who had been conducting clinical trials on dogs using radiotherapy.
Jerome Yates became a cancer doctor during a time when medical oncologists were thought to be what he describes as “the garbage collectors of medicine.”
Join the Cancer History Project April 20 at 7 p.m. EST for a panel moderated by Dr. Narjust Duma of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Four directors of NCI-designated cancer centers will discuss their unique perspectives as immigrants—and leaders in oncology. Topics will cover their unique pathways to leadership, diversity in medicine, and challenges faced by international medical graduates.
Bernard Fisher revolutionized the understanding of breast cancer—but 28 years ago this week, NCI jettisoned him from his position as chair of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project.
There is arguably no pair of oncology’s founders more famous than James Holland, longtime chairman of the Acute Leukemia Group B (ALGB), and Jimmie Holland, the founder of psycho-oncology.
Donald Pinkel, the founding medical director of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, died March 9. He was 95. An obituary by Tim Wendel, lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, who interviewed Pinkel for his book Cancer Crossings, appears here. An obituary by Mary Pinkel, Donald Pinkel’s daughter, appears here.
This March, the Cancer History Project is commemorating the legacies of women in oncology during Women’s History Month.
As guest editor of the Cancer History Project during Black History Month, Robert A. Winn, director of VCU Massey Cancer Center, chose to focus on the contributions of Black doctors and scientists to the development of oncology.
