American Cancer Society
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Catharine Macfarlane papers
Collection
Identifier: WM-047
Overview
Catharine Macfarlane graduated from Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1898, and later became an instructor in obstetrics at the college and a professor of gynecology. She was the first woman to be elected to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1935. Macfarlane devoted much of her career to cancer research and prevention, specifically pelvic cancer. In 1956, she became the first woman to serve as Chairman for the Medical Society of Pennsylvania’s Commission on Cancer....
Dates:
1895-1971; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1960
Irena Koprowska collection on American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration lung cancer screening study
Collection
Identifier: HU-002
Overview
Dr. Irena Grasberg Koprowska (born 1917) worked in pathology and participated in a study on the early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer: The American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration Cooperative Study for the Evaluation of Radiologic and Sputum Cytologic Screening in the Early Detection of Lung Cancer while working at Cornell University.The Irena Koprowska collection on American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration Lung Cancer Screening Study consists of...
Dates:
1958 - 1964
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Cancer -- Research -- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Cancer -- Treatment 1
- Correspondence 1
- Cytology 1
- Diagnosis, Laboratory 1
- Lungs -- Cancer 1
- Medical instruments and apparatus 1
- Medical libraries 1
- Medicine 1
- Reports 1
- Specimens 1
- Uterus -- Cancer 1
- Veterans 1
- Women in medicine 1
- Women physicians -- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1 ∧ less
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