On Jan. 11, 1964, at a packed press conference for over 200 reporters at the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC, Surgeon General Luther L. Terry released what would become one of the most important and most widely cited documents in the annals of medicine: “Smoking and Health—Report of the Advisory Committee of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.”
In 1964, the Office of the Surgeon General issued a report on smoking and health that ended a debate that had raged for decades—stating that cigarettes cause lung cancer and other diseases.
NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at NCI is marking 50 years of cancer surveillance.
2023 marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the American Cancer Society.
George SantosGeorge Santos, founder of Johns Hopkins University Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, pioneered many of the innovations used in bone marrow transplantation that are relevant today—but he didn’t get nearly as much credit as others working in the field.
This exhibition traces the history of efforts by the tobacco industry to encourage women to smoke cigarettes.
Richard Edelson began his career at NCI, where he was training to become a cancer immunologist.
Franklyn Prendergast, emeritus professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, and pharmacology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, was the first Black director of an NCI-designated cancer center.
When Ashani Weeraratna began her career as a trainee at Johns Hopkins in the 1990s, she was part of a team that conducted research in a grocery store-turned-laboratory.
Mary Lasker was surprised when, in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson called her at home and asked whether she would accept the job of U.S. ambassador to Finland.
