In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act, President Biden thanked “the limitless ingenuity of the world’s finest nurses, physicians, and researchers.” Few better exemplify this ingenuity than Fox Chase’s Beatrice Mintz, whose obituary is published in this week’s issue. The Cancer History Project commemorates both this anniversary and the legacy of Beatrice Mintz.
On Dec. 9, 1971, Benno C. Schmidt delivered a speech that sets the stage for the new era slated to begin exactly two weeks later, on Dec. 23, with the signing of the National Cancer Act by President Nixon.
Spotlight article Video: Nixon National Cancer Conference Kicks OffBy Richard Nixon Foundation | Dec. 8, 2021 On Dec. 23, 1971, in the East Room of the White House, describing it as something akin to a Christmas gift to the American people, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971. “We are here today […]
David S. Fischer, clinical professor of medicine (oncology) at Yale School of Medicine and attending physician at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale, authored this history of the Clinical Cancer Program at Yale in 2012.
The Richard Nixon Foundation will host the Nixon National Cancer Conference at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Dec. 1-2.
On Oct. 11, 1971, Roswell Park Memorial Institute hosted hearings to discuss the National Cancer Act of 1971. The hearings finalized the language of the bill and established the Cancer Center Support Grant.
A podcast on developments in genitourinary cancer is recording oral histories with pioneers of GU oncology. Sharpless discusses the history and future of NCI at the Paul Calabresi Memorial Lecture, Nov. 2.
Stanley Reimann was just one man, but in September 1930 he faced the daunting task of sustaining a fledgling research institute, which had started in 1921 in a makeshift lab above a hospital morgue, dedicated to unraveling the causes of cancer.
Breast cancer awareness month edition, with 1994 letters to the editor on mammography and the Bernard Fisher scandal.
Before Janet Rowley, few scientists suspected that chromosomal aberrations caused cancer. Beginning in the 1970s, however, she made a series of fundamental discoveries demonstrating that specific chromosomal changes caused certain types of leukemia.
