Histories, interviews, and primary sources from the archives of oncology. A project by @TheCancerLetter.
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Of the hundreds of scientists Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. mentored, perhaps one of the closest was Stephen J. Chanock, who worked with Fraumeni for 25 years. Chanock spoke with @OtisBrawley about their illustrious mentor on the @CancerHistProj podcast.
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Susan Ellenberg started out as a high school math teacher—then became a leading biostatistician.
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Surviving lung cancer focused Morhaf Al Achkar’s (@Morhafalachkar) career on addressing health disparities. cancerhistoryproject.com/art…
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If you have not checked out @CancerHistProj @TheCancerLetter — it is an amazing collection. I’m proud to have contributed with parts of the @DrLoveResearch @DrSusanLove story. #bcsm
Women’s History Month—How “Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book” has remained the “bible” for women with breast cancer since 1990 (@DrSGraff, @DrLoveResearch).
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How “Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book” has remained the “bible” for women with #BreastCancer since 1990. @DrSGraff spoke with @CancerHistProj for #WomensHistoryMonth: cancerhistoryproject.com/art…
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Women’s History Month: How women in oncology are fighting for cultural change. #WomenInMed
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I said it to Dr. Pettigrew (now at @TAMU) during our chat, and I'll say it here - I got smarter as a result of this
interview!
He is one cool cat making it happen in medicine AND engineering.
This @TheCancerLetter #BlackHistoryMonth video is a must watch.
Roderic Pettigrew, founding director of NIBIB (@NIBIBgov), reflects on a career as a “physicianeer”— merging medicine with engineering. With guest editor @DrRobWinn. #BlackHistoryMonth @CancerHistProj
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Roderic Pettigrew, founding director of NIBIB (@NIBIBgov), reflects on a career as a “physicianeer”— merging medicine with engineering. With guest editor @DrRobWinn. #BlackHistoryMonth @CancerHistProj
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.@KimmelCancerCtr CEO Joseph Cacchione announced this morning that Edith P. Mitchell, MD, died unexpectedly Jan. 21. She was a prominent oncologist, a leader in the field, and a retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General. Hear her story in her own words: cancerhistoryproject.com/peo…
ALT Edith P. Mitchell, MD, associate director for Diversity Services, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson University; Former member, President’s Cancer Panel
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Courtesy of the @cancerhistproj is a conversation with Beth Carner, who went from six weeks left to live to complete remission. You can find our second most-read story of the year below: cancerletter.com/in-the-arch…
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TODAY: The Cancer Letter turns 50.
On Dec. 21, 1973, Jerry D. Boyd ran the first printing of a little newsletter that would become The Cancer Letter.
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Today is #WorldAIDSDay. Did you know some of the earliest AIDS patient care and research was performed by NCI scientists and external researchers funded by NCI? Find out how #CancerResearch led to #AIDS breakthroughs. spr.ly/6017uf1B9 @HIVGov @CDC_HIV @NIH
ALT Black and white photo from the late 1980s of men carrying a banner. "AIDS: We need research. Not hysteria."
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.@cancerhistproj book spotlight: “Simone’s Maxims” CHP’s mission includes publishing books that tell the story of oncology, and this book is so fundamental to academic oncology that we don’t know when we're stealing Joe Simone’s lines.
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Karnofsky winner @DrHKantarjian: We changed the course of leukemias from mostly incurable to mostly curable.
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Fred Appelbaum’s “Living Medicine” tells the gripping story of the genesis of bone marrow transplantation and Don Thomas’s Nobel-prize-winning discoveries @fredhutch #HemOnc cancerhistoryproject.com/art…
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Rose Kushner: War correspondent and #BreastCancer advocate. #WomensHistoryMonth
Read excerpts on @CancerHistProj from Kushner’s obituary, stories about her time on the National Cancer Advisory Board, and articles about her advocacy work.
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The book is available for download via @CancerHistProj cancerhistoryproject.com/pri…
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.@FDAOncology is the latest contributor to @CancerHistProj cancerletter.com/in-the-arch…
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#WomensHistoryMonth: Ernestine Hambrick’s contributions to #ColorectalCancer surgery (
@AmCollSurgeons) cancerhistoryproject.com/peo…
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"For many years, I was one of the very few female medical oncologists in town. In the 1980s, it seemed like every young female with breast cancer was referred to me." - Dr. Carol Fabian
Learn more via @TheCancerLetter ➜ bit.ly/3ZUGB5M. #InternationalWomensDay
