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.
Mary Lasker: “If you can’t get it on a three-by-five-inch filing card, you’ve lost the message.”
Cancer History Project editorial board member Robert Peter Gale shares his perspective on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, marking the 10th anniversary of the disaster.
This column in The Cancer Letter features the latest posts to the Cancer History Project by our growing list of contributors.
This column in The Cancer Letter features the latest posts to the Cancer History Project by our growing list of contributors.
UpcomingBook Event: From Shadows to Life: A Biography of the Cancer Survivorship Movement
This column in The Cancer Letter features the latest posts to the Cancer History Project by our growing list of contributors.
