In 1930, the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) was established, funded…
On Apr. 23, 1929, Senator W. J. Harris, Georgia, introduced S. 466, “To authorize the Public Health Service…
On May 4, 1929, Clarence Cook Little founded The Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine,…
On Mar. 7, 1928, Senator Matthew Neely (D) of West Virginia introduced S. 3554, “To authorize the National…
In 1928, George Papanicolaou discovered that vaginal cell smears (the Pap smear) revealed the presence of cervical cancer….
In 1928, the sword symbol of the Americal Cancer Society (ASCC) came from a 1928 nationwide poster contest…
On Feb. 4, 1927, a decade before the National Cancer Institute (NCI) was established, Senator Matthew Neely (D)…
In 1924, Leo Rigler was appointed associate professor of radiology at the University of Minnesota. Rigler obtained full…
On May 22, 1913, The American Society for the Control of Cancer was created at a meeting of…
In 1913, the first known article on cancer’s warning signs was published in the popular women’s magazine (Ladies’…
On Aug. 31, 1909, George W. McCoy published a preliminary report in “The Journal of Medical Research” that…
In 1905, the St. Louis Skin and Cancer Hospital was founded to provide free cancer care to the…
In 1872, the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital was founded as the first hospital in America devoted…
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…