The prevalence of U.S. adult smoking declined to 24.1 percent in 1998
In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that an estimated 47.2 million adults (24.1%),…
In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that an estimated 47.2 million adults (24.1%),…
In 1995, the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT), funded by the Nationa Cancer Institute, was designed…
In 1995, the FDA declared cigarettes to be “drug delivery devices.” Restrictions were proposed on marketing and sales…
On Feb. 25, 1994, the FDA announced it could consider regulating nicotine in cigarettes as a drug, in…
In 1994, Mary-Claire King, PhD, a University of Washington professor of genome sciences and medicine, discovered the “breast…
In 1990, Geneticist Mary-Claire King and her colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley discovered BRCA1, the first…
On May 22, 1989, Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) performed…
In 1986, the Office on Smoking and Health became part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…
On May 23, 1984, U.S. Surgeon General reported that there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to…
In 1984, fluoroestradiol (FES) was first developed by researchers Michael J. Welch, PhD and John Katzenellenbogen, PhD. This…
In 1976, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) became the home for the National Clearinghouse…
Cesser de Fumer: Profite a la Sante, published by the World Health Organization, (ca. 1975).
On Jan. 11, 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released the first government report that concluded smoking may…
In 1962, the Royal College of Physicians issued a report on smoking and health.
On Mar. 2, 1961, President Kennedy swore in Luther Leonidas Terry as U.S. Surgeon General. The landmark Surgeon…
In 1950, Ernst Wynder, Evarts Graham, and Sir Richard Doll confirmed the cigarette smoking-cancer link. In 1950, Wynder…
In 1950, Washington University physician Evarts A. Graham, MD, and medical student Ernst Wynder published a landmark study…
On Sept. 4, 1943, Dr. Carl Voegtlin resigned as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Voegtlin…
In 1943, George Nicholas Papanicolaou and Herbert Traut published their landmark book “Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the…
On Aug. 27, 1942, chemotherapy was first used to treat a cancer patient and the beginning of its…
In 1928, the sword symbol of the Americal Cancer Society (ASCC) came from a 1928 nationwide poster contest…
In 1928, George Papanicolaou discovered that vaginal cell smears (the Pap smear) revealed the presence of cervical cancer….
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…
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 is founded to provide free cancer care….