The Cancer History Project
By Cancer History Project
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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. The Cancer History Project’s archives are available online at CancerHistoryProject.com.
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Chuck Sherr and Bill Evans on writing the untold story of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
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May 15, 2026 |
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Funmi Olopade on how life in Nigeria and South Side Chicago inspired her career in cancer genetics
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Bernie Lewinsky on radiation oncology giants, fifty years of progress, and the healing power of art
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Michael Link on advances in pediatric oncology, his term as ASCO President—and concern for the future
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Rick and Mary Pazdur were an oncology power couple. Then Mary was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Melvin J. Silverstein on DCIS, breast cancer surgery, and building the first free-standing breast center
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Walter Lawrence Jr. on surgical oncology, social justice, and the National Cancer Act
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May 05, 2025 |
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How Susan Ellenberg went from school teacher to leading biostatistician
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Latino oncology leaders discuss representation in clinical trials, translational research, and health care
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Lung cancer couldn’t slow down physician and athlete Lawrence Phillips
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Christy Erickson’s cancer diagnosis led to life as a motorcyclist and strongman competitor
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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2024 Karnofsky Award winner Lillian Siu talks about her career in phase I studies, ctDNA, and her mentor’s “evil red pencil”
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May 10, 2024 |
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Surviving lung cancer focused Morhaf Al Achkar’s career on addressing health disparities
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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How “Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book” has remained the “bible” for women with breast cancer since 1990
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Weeks before death from sarcoma, Norm Coleman reflected on his career in radiation oncology, addressing health disparities
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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NIH ORWH’s Vivian Pinn on being the second Black woman graduate of UVA med school
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Roderic Pettigrew on a career as a “physicianeer” and the early days of the MRI: “You don’t make advances without technological innovation.”
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Former HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan on sinking RJR’s “Uptown,” a menthol brand for Black smokers
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Don Shopland: Writing the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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How George Santos and Al Owens’s early Cytoxan studies led to standard-of-care therapy in BMT
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Judith L. Pearson on how Mary Lasker made the National Cancer Act happen
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Chris Lundy had one week to live; 52 years later, he is the longest living BMT recipient at the Hutch
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Who can fill Shelley Earp's shoes at UNC Lineberger?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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John Laszlo: Finding the cure for childhood leukemia and writing a book about it
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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How CAR T cell therapy resulted in a complete remission in two subtypes of lymphoma
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Hagop Kantarjian on changing the course of leukemias from mostly incurable to mostly curable
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May 26, 2023 |
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Fred Appelbaum on the genesis of bone marrow transplantation and Don Thomas’s Nobel-prize-winning discoveries
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May 19, 2023 |
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Patient stories: Sandra Hillburn on receiving a pathbreaking treatment for glioblastoma multiforme
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Women’s History Month panel: Breast cancer in the White House
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Richard Silvera on bridging advocacy and research through the Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Program
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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MSK’s Selwyn Vickers: Fighting for health equity to improve care—for everyone
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Otis Brawley & Robert Winn: the killing of Tyre Nichols & power dynamics in policing and health care
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Kay Dickersin: How NBCC started Project LEAD to teach science to breast cancer patients
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Panel: The three comprehensive cancer centers that set the model for a nation
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Craig Jordan on discovering tamoxifen’s role in breast cancer and a lifetime of innovation
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Robin Scheffler on viral oncology’s complicated path
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Dwight Tosh, the 17th patient at St. Jude, on surviving lymphoma in 1962
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Jerry Yates on building a cancer center in a rural environment—Vermont
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Cancer Survivors Month: Dave Boule confronted polycythemia vera with an accountant’s consistency
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Cancer Survivors Month: How Beth Carner went from six weeks left to live with stage 4 colon cancer to complete remission
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Cancer Survivors Month: Judy Orem on being diagnosed with CML in 1995
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Bill Haney on the making of “Jim Allison: Breakthrough”
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May 20, 2022 |
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Panel: Experts propose a health equity action plan
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May 13, 2022 |
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Panel: International perspectives in U.S. cancer center leadership
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Jerome Yates: “We were like the Rodney Dangerfields of medicine in the late ‘60s.”
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Tim Wendel on the “Cancer Cowboys” and getting to know the Acute Leukemia Group B
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Dr. Susan Love: Breast cancer activism in the 1990s
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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A Cancer History Project Panel: Black History Month, and the evolution of the health equity movement
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick: The Legacy of LaSalle Leffall, Jr.
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Dr. Edith Mitchell on her path from Tennessee farm to becoming a cancer doctor and brigadier general
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Dr. Harold Freeman: Cutting cancer out of Harlem
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Introducing the Cancer History Project podcast
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Feb 09, 2022 |