Fox Chase Cancer Center has contributed two articles to the Cancer History Project, documenting the impact of Paul Grotzinger and Gerald “Jerry” Hanks.
In a new online exhibition, The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society examines tobacco in the tabloids.
In 2013, the American College of Surgeons conducted an oral history interview with former ACS president Edward M. Copeland III.
In an article for the Cancer History Project, the American Cancer Society and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network celebrate six trailblazing Black leaders and pioneers who have made a lasting impact on health equity in oncology.
When Stephanie Graff was a breast oncology fellow in 2010, one of her patients brought a marked up copy of “Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book” to an appointment.
In 2018, Narjust Florez was attending a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and on the stage were three physicians—one woman and two men.
This Women’s History Month, the Cancer History Project is documenting the lives of women who have shaped oncology.
On her first day of medical school at the University of Virginia in 1963, Vivian Pinn waited for the other students who looked like her to show up.
As a student at MIT in the 1970s, Roderic Pettigrew was writing his PhD thesis on how a controlled nuclear reaction in the brain, boron neutron activation therapy, could be used to treat glioblastoma multiforme.
Commemorate the legacy of Black women in oncology with these highlights from the Cancer History Project.