Alan Blum, director of The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, documents advertisements from tobacco companies during “an era not very long ago when a son giving his dad a gift of a carton of cigarettes was as American as apple pie.”
In January 2021 Mary Humphrey made several phone calls to find an oncologist who would treat her husband, Marcus Humphrey, for a lump that had grown rapidly and exponentially on the right side of his neck.
After reading last week’s coverage of Fred Appelbaum’s “Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution,” Jerome Yates, emeritus professor of oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer, wrote a letter to the editor addressing the contributions of another leader in the field of bone marrow transplantation—George Santos.
Frederick Appelbaum, executive vice president, professor in the Clinical Research Division, and Metcalfe Family/Frederick Appelbaum Endowed Chair in Cancer Research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, is the author of “Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution.”
Alan Blum, director of The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, documents King Charles’s track record of anti-smoking advocacy, which represents a break with the royal family’s history with tobacco.
The following reflections on the Association of American Cancer Institutes from AACI are excerpted from “The History of the Association of American Cancer Institutes” by Donald L. Trump and Eric T. Rosenthal.
Sandra Hillburn walked miles every day with a friend. She hiked mountains, played golf and tennis, and skied. In 2005, those things began to feel impossible.
In the first report from the President’s Cancer Panel, Benno C. Schmidt outlined his vision for the National Cancer Program, as defined by the National Cancer Act of 1971
If advertising is to be believed, in 1954, the American Medical Association ran a test comparing filtered cigarettes.
The first evidence of cancer—and cancer treatment—in humans dates back to the Pyramid Age, writes Jaya M. Satagopan, PhD, full member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health.
