The Cancer History Project announces its first panel, with Otis Brawley in conversation with directors of America’s first three NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers, July 29, 2021.
Nathaniel Berlin, an experimental hematologist, joined NCI in 1956 as head of the Metabolism Service in the General Medicine Branch and held that position until 1966, when he became chief of NCI’s Metabolism Branch, a position he held until 1971.
While her husband and his colleagues focused on curing people of their cancer, Dr. Holland asked a question that none of them were able to answer: How do the patients feel about it?
“The fact that a woman could get a PhD degree and then get a job was really different than in other parts of the world,” said Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, professor emeritus in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma.
Big questions. That’s what Beatrice Mintz, PhD, the former Jack Schultz Chair of Basic Science at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has dedicated her career to answering. Small questions, in her opinion, are not worth the time or effort.
Eva Bateman had more than one reason to celebrate in 1939 when she graduated from the School of Nursing at Buffalo’s E. J. Meyer Memorial Hospital. She was the first person of African descent to achieve that distinction, and she ranked first academically in a class of 100.
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., NCI Director from July 9, 1980 to Sept. 1, 1988. The interview was conducted on June 5, 1997, by Gretchen A. Case as part of the NCI Oral History Project.
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship has provided the Cancer History Project with a rich archive of its newsletters: the NCCS Networker, volumes 1-11.
Today Dr. Roswell Park is remembered mostly as the founder of the world’s first cancer research institute, which still bears his name proudly to this day in Buffalo, NY, but his contributions to medicine extend much further.
Lori J. Pierce, MD, FASTRO, FASCO began her term as the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 57th president on June 1, 2020, making her ASCO’s first African American woman to hold this prestigious title.
