On Dec. 17, 1950, five thousand Oklahomans attended an Open House for a newly dedicated OMRF research building….
On May 27, 1950, Washington University physician Evarts A. Graham, MD, and medical student Ernst Wynder published a…
In 1950, Ernst Wynder, Evarts Graham, and Sir Richard Doll confirmed the cigarette smoking-cancer link. In 1950, Wynder…
In 1949, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved nitrogen mustard to kill cancer cells. The major use…
On Apr. 14, 1948, John Roderick Heller became the fourth and longest serving director of the National Cancer…
On Mar. 5, 1947, ground was broken for the new University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building. The new…
In 1947, the Southeastern Michigan Division of the American Cancer Society created the Michigan Cancer Foundation to comply…
On Jan. 1, 1947, Jesse P. Greenstein of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) summed up 20 years of…
In 1947, biochemist Yellapragada SubbaRow co-discovered the first cancer chemotherapy agent for children suffering from acute leukemia. While…
In 1947, Governor Roy J. Turner launched a fund drive that spanned all 77 of Oklahoma’s counties. In…
In 1946, fission-derived radioiodine became readily available as a by-product of the Manhattan project in Oak Ridge, TN….
On Aug. 8, 1945, the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (SKI) was established. A gift of $4 million…
In 1945, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation was founded by a group…
In 1945, the American Society for the Control of Cancer renamed American Cancer Society.
In 1945, W. Ray Bryan, Michael B. Shimkin, Howard B. Andervont, Herbert Kahler and Thelma B. Dunn published…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the United States Congress passed the Public Health Service Act, which officially reorganized the…
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…
In 1943, The Detroit Institute for Cancer Research was incorporated with just $483 and 200 shares of General…
On Aug. 27, 1942, chemotherapy was first used to treat a cancer patient and the beginning of its…
In 1942, The Hormel Institute was founded by Jay C. Hormel in Austin to research and find a…
In 1942, Dr. William Hutchinson began a 47 year career in Seattle, Washington when he joined the Swedish…
On Aug. 1, 1941, Harold L. Stewart and Egon Lorenz published an article in the Journal of the…
In 1941, Texas State Cancer Hospital, now known as the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was…
On Aug. 1, 1940, the first issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) was published….
In 1940, the U.S. government established a national blood collection program. That same year the National Research Council…
In 1940, the McArdle Memorial Laboratory was founded in Madison. McArdle Lab was one of the first basic…
In 1939, Hugh G. Grady and Harold L. Stewart first identified the type II cell of the pulmonary…
On Nov. 5, 1938, the British Columbia Cancer Institute, BC Cancer’s first cancer treatment centre officially opened in…
On Jan. 13, 1938, Dr. Carl Voegtlin became the first director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), established…