Cancer in Mid-Century [Cancer Alert]

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Leona Baumgartner
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Dr. Leona Baumgartner, first woman commissioner of New York City's Department of Health, discusses the advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer between 1900-1950.


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