The Cancer History Project’s mission includes publishing books that tell the story of oncology and the shaping of its culture.
These classic books—which include histories, memoirs, and biographies, are republished digitally—are made available in perpetuity at no cost to the reader.
Browse the Cancer History Project’s book archive.
- Simone’s Maxims: Understanding Today’s Academic Medical Centers – The Cancer History Project
By Cancer History Project | Jan. 29, 2021
“Simone’s Maxims” is a book so fundamental to academic oncology that we don’t know when we are stealing Joe Simone’s lines.
Simone’s book, “Simone’s Maxims” is available in electronic form on the Cancer History Project. The book continues to be available in paperback from Editorial Rx Press.
Here are three of Simone’s most famous maxims:
- Institutions don’t love you back.
- Leadership does matter.
- Contrary to the laws of physics in academic institutions, crap flows uphill.
Simone has updated the maxims over the years. The first version was published as a journal article in Clinical Cancer Research in 1999. The first version of the book was published in 2004, and in an expanded and updated edition in 2012.
This free PDF edition is made available by Simone’s family, and print editions are available from Editorial Rx Press.
Read the book on the Cancer History Project.
Quote of the week
University-based health science centers are essential forces in determining the quality and stature of biological research in our country and they have a strong influence on the standards of medical care, particularly in their own geographic regions.
Joe Simone
On a Hopkins podcast, Nelson and Brawley discuss prevention and screening
- 50th Anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Podcast Series – Cancer Mortality
By Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center | July 12, 2023
Bill Nelson and Otis Brawley analyze the successes that have been made in reducing cancer mortality as well as the necessary next steps in prevention and screening.
Brawley is a co-editor of the Cancer History Project.
This column features the latest posts to the Cancer History Project by our growing list of contributors.
The Cancer History Project is a free, web-based, collaborative resource intended to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act and designed to continue in perpetuity. The objective is to assemble a robust collection of historical documents and make them freely available.
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