The following is an excerpt from How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, by Otis W. Brawley, MD, with Paul Goldberg, published in 2012.
Nearly three years ago, Robert A. Winn and Otis Brawley provided their unforgettable personal perspectives on the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Duke Cancer Institute is commemorating 50 years of gynecologic care and research.
In January, the Cancer History Project is focusing on the legacies of the people who comprise the field. A full archive of individuals whose contributions are preserved in the Cancer History Project is available here.
In an interview with the Cancer History Project, Kay Dickersin, one of the early leaders of the grassroots breast cancer patient advocacy movement, recounted the beginnings of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.
In 1971, when the National Cancer Act was signed, J. Palmer Saunders was the director of the Division of Cancer Research, Resources and Centers.
In 1991, NCI recorded impact statements commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the National Cancer Act of 1971—and now this historic document has been digitized and made searchable in the Cancer History Project.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey opened its doors in 1993 as the result of a P20 planning grant, and in 1997 became the first NCI-designated cancer center in New Jersey.
Can you name the first NCI-designated cancer centers? The answer to this question is anything but straightforward—in part because the contenders predate NCI’s definition of a “cancer center”.
The American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout has been held the third Thursday of November annually since 1976. At the first official Great American Smokeout on Nov. 18, 1976, the California Division of ACS successfully helped nearly 1 million people quit smoking for one day.
