HeyJaredThe Cancer History Project
A podcast of oral histories and interviews with the people who have shaped oncology as we know it.The Cancer History Project is an initiative by The Cancer Letter, oncology's longest-running news publication.
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Michael Crane on how 9/11 first responders have fought their lung cancer risk—by stopping smoking (opens the original)
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Michael A. Crane, the medical director of the World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai, thought he would be seeing a lot of cases of lung cancer coming into his clinic. “My greatest concern was that they were gonna get lung cancer,” Crane said. He remembers treating 9/11 first responders during the immediate recovery. Workers would put on a mask and the filter would clog up within 30 minutes. The air was thick and impossible to breathe. But 25 years later, a
Fran Visco tells the story of NBCC: “Women have declared war on breast cancer” (opens the original)
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Fran Visco, president of The National Breast Cancer Coalition, sat down with Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter for a special armchair discussion at the NBCC Advocate Leadership Summit in 2022. They discuss the history of NBCC and breast cancer activism, including one of the organization’s top accomplishments: the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program. This came after the “$300 Million More” campaign in 1992, which drew in advocates from all across the countr
Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. was the father of modern epidemiology (opens the original)
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If a Mount Rushmore of Epidemiology were to exist, Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. would be etched into the face of the mountain, former NCI Director Ned Sharpless once told Stephen J. Chanock. Of the hundreds of scientists Fraumeni mentored, perhaps one of the closest was Stephen J. Chanock, his successor as director of the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, who worked with Fraumeni for 25 years. Fraumeni died on June 22. He was 93. Otis Brawley, co-editor of the Cancer History Project an
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