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Sources Guides list
Sources Guide: Cancer
Research
Clinical
Prevention/Public Health and Education
Cures
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Research
CANCER RESEARCH CAMPAIGN (f.1923 as the BRITISH EMPIRE CANCER CAMPAIGN, renamed 1970) SA/CRC
Records of the Campaign, 1923-1981, founded to investigate the causes, distribution, symptoms, pathology and treatment of cancer, including minutes; press cuttings; files on organisation, senior members, local branches, relations with other UK and overseas cancer organisations, fund-raising, research equipment and chemicals, cancer causes and 'cures',
cancer education and publicity
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CYCLOTRON UNIT SA/MCU
Includes records of Radium Beam Therapy Research Committee, 1933-45, plus extensive clinical material on treatment carried out by this Unit at Hammersmith Hospital, 1934-60
See GC/160 J W Gallop (b.1910) for additional material on the construction and running of the Cyclotron Project, 1940s-50s
MEDICAL WOMEN’S FEDERATION SA/MWF
Material relating to research project on Cancer of the Ovary, aiming at earlier diagnosis, 1970s
STRANGEWAYS RESEARCH LABORATORY SA/SRL
Conducted research related to cancer, some specifically funded by the British Empire Cancer Campaign and Cancer Research Campaign; collection includes papers of the Radium Commission, 1932-43
J W B (“Jack”) BOAG PP/JWB
Notebooks relating to radiation research at Radiotherapeutic Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, 1948-52, and at Institute of Cancer Research and after retirement, 1970s-80s
Sir Richard DOLL (1912-2005 ) PP/DOL
Research materials and papers with particular reference to smoking and environmental causes of cancer, 1946-98
Dame Honor Bridget FELL (1900-1986) PP/HBF
Director of the Strangeways Research Laboratory (q.v.) 1929-1970; also involved with the Gibb Research Fellowship of the BECC, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, etc
George Robert FRASER (1932-) PP/GRF/F
Material pertaining to his work in establishing, and extending the work of, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) Familial Cancer Registry and Cancer Genetic Clinic, 1969-2001
Sir Alexander HADDOW (1907-1976) PP/HAD
Extensive series of notebooks on his work on the experimental pathology of cancer, 1930s-60s, also correspondence
Harold HEWITT (b.1915) ‘Getting by without Ambition’ GC/222
Autobiographical memoir including material on his career in cancer research
Sir Ernest KENNAWAY (1881-1958) PP/ELK
Notebooks including re tobacco, arsenic, prostate cancer, and mule-spinner’s cancer, 1940s-50s
Sir Peter MEDAWAR (1915-1985) PP/PBM
Materials re immunological research include some investigations of cancer, 1950s-80s
Sir Edward Eric POCHIN (1909-1990) PP/EEP
Much material on relationship between radiation exposure and cancers of various kinds, also some clinical material on iodine/radioiodine therapy, 1950s-80s
John READ (1908–1993) PP/JRE
Material relating to his work in radiobiology under the auspices of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, 1930s–70s
Frederick Gordon SPEAR (1895-1980) PP/FGS
Deputy Director of the Strangeways Research Laboratory and radiologist. Material on work at the Strangeways, also re International Congress for Experimental Cytology 1933; Hospital Physicists Association; British Association of Radiology, 1930s-60s
Alice Mary STEWART (1906-2002) PP/AMS
Material relating to her research with the Oxford Childhood Cancer Survey, and further work on the implication of low-dose radiation in carcinogenesis, 1950s-1990s
Air Marshal Sir Harold WHITTINGHAM (1887-1983) PP/HEW
Manuscript, diagrams, photographs, articles, notes on his research at the Royal Cancer Hospital, Glasgow, in section A and M, c.1910-1913, particularly re transplanted mouse cancers
Constance A P WOOD (1897-1985) GC/95
Director, Radiotherapeutic Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital. Material relating to her studies of x-ray and radium therapy , 1934-1962
Clinical
Mary CATTERALL PP/CAT
Material relating to her period as Consultant in charge of Fast Neutron Clinic, Hammersmith Hospital, 1970–87, and work generally on neutron therapy for cancer
William Sampson HANDLEY (1872-1962) GC/152
Notes on diagnosis and surgical technique, Guy’s Hospital, 1894, notes on cases at the Middlesex and Samaritan Hospitals, 1902-12
Professor Donald HUNTER (1898-1977) PP/HUN
Case notes and reference files include some material on cancer, mostly of occupational causation, 1920s-50s
MEDICAL WOMEN'S FEDERATION SA/MWF
Photographs, articles, memorabilia, reports, correspondence, visitors' book, of Marie Curie Hospital, 1930s-50s
J M W MORISON (1875-1951) GC/77
Small group of papers of radiologist, first professor of medical radiology in the University of London
Frederick PARKES WEBER (1863-1962) PP/FPW
Correspondence, notes, cuttings, reprints, photographs etc, mainly on the rarer manifestations, 1890s-1950s
PATIENTS’ ASSOCIATION SA/PAT
Some material relating to cancer care services for patients, 1970s-90s
Sir Ronald Bodley SCOTT, GCVO (1906-1982) PP/RBS
Papers of this clinical haematologist include notes and unpublished papers on various malignant diseases, 1930s-70s
Sir Bernard SPILSBURY (1877-1947) PP/SPI
Notes on autopsies performed by him 1905-33 include many in which cancer was a factor
WELLCOME FOUNDATION WF
Archives of pharmaceutical company include material relating to cancer-treatment products, c. 1960s-90s
WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL RADIOTHERAPY INTERVIEW GC/171
1993 interview of colleagues of Sir Stanford Cade, q.v., plus photos and cartoon of Cade
Prevention/Public Health and Education
ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH (f. 1971) SA/ASH
Charity working to educate public and lobby parliament about hazards of smoking, including cancer, 1970s-80s
Sir Francis AVERY–JONES (1910–1998) GC/198
Correspondence on connection between smoking and lung cancer, 1956-93; also articles on gastrointestinal cancers, 1953-64
BACUP: British Association of Cancer United Patients and their Family and Friends (f. 1976) SA/BAC
Provides professional and practical advice, as well as emotional counselling, for people who have to live with cancer; records 1976-93
FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION SA/FPA
Involved in the provision of cervical smear services, 1960s-70s, also some material re research into gynaecological cancers in 1930s and 40s
James Randal HUTCHINSON (c.1880-1955) of the Ministry of Health PP/JRH
One reference file on 'Cancer' 1924-1945
MEDICAL WOMEN’S FEDERATION SA/MWF
Material on setting up of National Cervical Cancer Prevention/Women’s National Cancer Control Campaign to establish screening facilities, 1960s-70s
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST AND HEART SA/NPT
Some material on the link between smoking and lung cancer, 1960s
SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH/ SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE/ SOCIETY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (1856-1997) SA/SMO
The Society was concerned with various public health issues including the effect of smoking. See files in section L relating to smoking and health, cervical cancer, screening and the National Cervical Cancer Prevention Campaign; report on breast cancer (R.25); paper on cancer of the thyroid and water fluoridation (P.5/11); articles in the Society’s journal Public Health
'Cures'
BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SA/BMA
'Groups' files include some material on 'Cancer clinics'; also a considerable amount of material on patent medicines, including alleged cancer cures, 1910s-50s
CANCER RESEARCH CAMPAIGN (f.1923 as the BRITISH EMPIRE CANCER CAMPAIGN, renamed 1970) SA/CRC
Series of files in Section N on various cancer 'cures', 1923-1981
Barbara EVANS (1909-1995) PP/PRE/H.9
1 file among her papers on complementary medicine includes tape of interviews at Cancer Help Centre Bristol, c. 1980s
LISTER INSTITUTE SA/LIS
One file 'Cancer Letters' 1932, claiming to have found a cure
WELLCOME ARCHIVES
Archives of the Historical Medical Museum include some material on historical cures for cancer, committees and conferences, 1905-38 WA/HMM
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