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The Cancer Letter received five 2020 Dateline Awards from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists:

  • Art/Photo Illustration, Newsletter/Trade Publications, first place, by Katie Goldberg, for illustrations of the 2019 ASCO annual meeting

  • Editorial Cartooning, Newsletter/Trade Publications, first place, by Katie Goldberg

  • Infographic, Newsletter/Trade Publications, first place, by Jacqueline Ong

  • Art/Photo Illustration, Newsletter/Trade Publications, finalist, by Katie Goldberg, for cover art of 2019

  • Investigative Journalism, Newsletter/Trade Publications, finalist, for “Thirty Days to Death by Cancer,” by Matthew Ong and Paul Goldberg

This is the third consecutive year The Cancer Letter has won first-place design awards, and the first year The Cancer Letter has won awards for cartooning and infographics.

This is also the fourth award Ong has received from SPJDC for his series on cancer-related surgical outcomes, minimally invasive surgery, FDA regulation of devices, and new surgical techniques for the prevention or treatment of cancer.

Here are a few of The Cancer Letter‘s award-winning covers, cartoons, and infographics published in 2019:

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