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1979

ONS’s first building – 701 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon, PA

Street view of a light tan and reddish brown building with larger numbers on the front reading 701

1973

1973: The first National Cancer Nursing Research Conference is held.⁷

1971

1971: President Richard Nixon signs the National Cancer Act, which establishes national cancer research centers and national cancer control programs.⁶

1958

National Cancer Institute researchers demonstrate that combination chemotherapy induces partial and complete remissions and prolongs survival in children and adults with acute leukemia.⁴
Edith Wolf (far right, with glasses), an early founder of ONS, participates in St. John's University Nurses Congress, "Changing Times."⁵

Black and white aged image of four women sitting at a desk smiling toward the camera, a chalk board in the background

1950

1950: Katherine Nelson teaches a cancer nursing course to the first class of Black public health nurses at the University of North Carolina.³

Black and white aged image of a classroom with African American female students sitting in chairs as Caucasian female, Katherine Nelson, teaches at the front of the class

1949

1949: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves nitrogen mustard (mechlorethamine) for the treatment of cancer.²

1947

February 1947: Katherine Nelson, an early founder of ONS, teaches the first university course in cancer nursing in the United States at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York, NY.¹

Black and white aged image of crowded room with women sitting in chairs

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