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Location: Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Call No.: MC 453; T-141; DVD-81
Repository: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Creator: Kushner, Rose
Title: Papers of Rose Kushner, 1913-1997
Date(s): 1913-1997
Quantity: 20.85 linear feet (49 file boxes, 2 half file boxes) plus 2 folio folders, 4 photograph folders, 2 audiocassettes, 1 DVD)
Language of materials: Materials in English.
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, and professional papers of Rose Kushner, journalist and breast cancer expert.

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SEPARATION RECORD

Donor: Harvey Kushner

Accession numbers: 2006-M1, 2012-M14, 2014-M49

Processed by: Laura Peimer

The following items have been transferred to the Schlesinger Library books and printed materials collection:

• Adventures to Motherhood: The Picture-Story of Pregnancy and Childbirth by J. Allan Offen, M.D., (Simon and Schuster; Audio Visual Education Co. of America, Inc., 1964)
• El Proceso de la Maternidad: Historia Grafica del Embarazo al Alumbramiento by J. Allan Offen, M.D., (Simon and Schuster; Audio Visual Education Co. of America, Inc., 1964)

BIOGRAPHY

Rose Kushner, journalist, breast cancer expert, and patient advocate was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 22, 1929, the fourth child of Israel and Fannie (Gravitz) Rehert. After graduating from high school she worked for animal behaviorist Dr. Horsley Gantt at the Pavlovian Laboratory of Johns Hopkins Medical School (1947-1951). She married Harvey Kushner in January 1951 and they had three children: Gantt, (born 1952), Todd (1956), and Lesley (1958). As she had always wanted to be a physician, Kushner took pre-med courses at Baltimore Junior College (1949) and Montgomery Junior College (1963), but switched to journalism and received her A.B. summa cum laude from the University of Maryland in 1972. She freelanced as a journalist in Bolivia and Vietnam (1967), wrote articles and an unpublished book, "The Peacehawks," covered the Yom Kippur war (1973), and did some medical writing.

The discovery of a breast lump which proved to be cancerous in June 1974, changed her life. Finding that there was little information available, she researched the topic in medical and technical publications and kept notes as she underwent lumpectomy and reconstructive surgery. An article based on her own experience appeared in the Washington Post and was syndicated in hundreds of newspapers. Her book Breast Cancer: A Personal History and Investigative Report (1975) was revised and reprinted twice, as Why Me? (1977) and Alternatives (1984). For her books and numerous articles about breast cancer she received awards from the American Medical Writers Association (1980, 1985). She was awarded the Medal of Honor (1987) and the Courage Award (1988) by the American Cancer Society. She founded the Breast Cancer Advisory Center (1975) to provide information and support for breast cancer patients and was frequently called before Congress to testify on health and cancer topics. In June 1977, she was the only non-physician chosen to be on an National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel, which adopted a two-stage procedure instead of the Halsted radical mastectomy as the standard treatment for women suspected of having breast cancer. As a result, a biopsy that located a breast lump was no longer automatically followed by a mastectomy.

President Jimmy Carter appointed Kushner to the National Cancer Advisory Board (1980-1986), where she brought her skills as an investigative reporter and patient advocate to medical policy-making and task forces. She was a founder of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations and served on its board from 1986 to 1989. This umbrella organization linked many local groups, published a newsletter, and lobbied for policy reform. Her report on her trip to China (1984) drew attention to the spiraling increase in the incidence of breast cancer there and the need for self-examination as a means of prevention.

In June 1982, Rose Kushner developed a second cancer when her implant ruptured and had to be reinserted. She refused aggressive chemotherapy and was treated with tamoxifen. She campaigned against aggressive adjuvant chemotherapy in 1984. She was also involved in an United States Food and Drug Administration study of silicone breast implants and a DES (diethylstilbestrol) task force to track down the health histories of women like herself who had taken DES during pregnancy.

Rose Kushner died of cancer on January 7, 1990.

ARRANGEMENT

The collection is arranged in five series:

• I. Personal and family, 1913-1997 (#1.1-1.16, 25.1-30.2, FD.1-FD.2, T-141.1-T-141.2, DVD-81.1)
• II. Writings, 1951-1990 (#2.1-8.1, 30.3-30.18)
• III. Correspondence, 1973-1992 (#8.2-11.10, 30.19-50.7)
• IV. Organizations, 1965-1990 (#11.11-24.9, 50.8-51.2)
• V. Photographs, 1960-1985 (#PD.1-PD.2, #81, #172)

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Rose Kushner's papers provide information on her professional career as the founder and executive director of the Women's Breast Cancer Advisory Center. Also included are family correspondence and materials related to her early career and education. The core collection (accession numbers: 83-M222, 95-M26, 95-M44) was originally processed in 1998. A copy of the original inventory is located in box #1. Additional materials received by the Schlesinger Library (accession numbers: 2006-M1, 2012-M14, 2014-M49) were added to the collection in May 2016, and are represented in the inventory in boxes 25-51, DVD-81. Folders are listed in intellectual, not sequential order in this inventory. When the finding aid was updated in 2016, the folder numbering and container list were also updated and the additional folders were incorporated within the inventory in their appropriate series. Originally, folders in the collection were numbered sequentially #1-#278, but are now numbered by box and folder number (#1.1-#24.9). All original files remain in the same order. More complete descriptions were added to the series notes or folder titles when applicable.

Series I, PERSONAL AND FAMILY, 1913-1997 (#1.1-1.16, 25.1-30.2, FD.1-FD.2, T-141.1-T-141.2, DVD-81.1), includes personal correspondence, notes, clippings, audiocassettes and partial transcript of an oral history interview, the first chapters of a memoir, and genealogical and other family data. Rose Kushner's travels to Europe in 1949 are documented by correspondence with family, with her mentor Dr. W. Horsley Gantt of the Pavlovian Society of America, and Maurice Hindus, the Russian-American writer, foreign correspondent, lecturer and authority on Soviet and Central European affairs, and a friend of Dr. Gantt. There is some correspondence written in Hebrew. Of note are materials related to Rose Kushner's memorial service in 1990; including professional and personal correspondence between Harvey and Rose Kushner's colleagues, friends, and supporters, and a DVD of the memorial at the National Institutes of Health on January 30, 1990. In addition, this series contains extensive clippings files consisting of articles published in medical journals and popular press about Rose Kushner and her interests and work in breast cancer research advocacy. A set of these clippings arrived at the library in folders by article title, and these have been retained in their original folders (#26.1-27.118). While this set of clippings contain a few articles by Rose Kushner (#27.21, 27.57, 27.82), for the majority of articles by Kushner, see Series II, Writings. This series is arranged by subject area.

Series II, WRITINGS, 1951-1990 (#2.1-8.1, 30.3-30.18), includes published articles, drafts, book outlines, forewords, and related correspondence on breast cancer. There are papers on experimental psychology, articles and an outline for a novel on Vietnam, and articles about Kushner's Jewish heritage. Her conference papers and talks, 1976-1989 (#6.5-6.8, 6.10), draw on her own experience as a cancer patient, describe the psychological and emotional aspects of the disease, emphasize the importance of the support of nurses and social workers, condemn unnecessary radical mastectomy, and testify that even radical mastectomy need not be mutilating. The expert testimonies (#6.12-8.1) given by Kushner to federal agencies, congressional and other committees, and in legal depositions illustrates her campaign to have annual mammography covered by health insurance, and her concern for patients' bills of rights. This series is arranged by category.

Series III, CORRESPONDENCE, 1973-1992 (#8.2-11.10, 30.19-50.7) contains professional correspondence primarily with Rose Kushner in her role as founder and Executive Director of the Breast Cancer Advisory Center. Correspondents include other medical professionals, concerned public, patients, advocates, teachers, journals and non-profit health centers and universities; friends; and others, including staff of the Center and Dr. Thomas Dao, a medical advisor on the Center's board. Topics in the correspondence folders include development in cancer therapies; Rose Kushner's books and other writings; publicity and speaking engagements; correspondence with doctors re: referrals of patients; Kushner's participation in symposia, lectures, speaking engagements; conferences and meetings; Kushner's television appearances; Breast Cancer Advisory Center support and funding; medical malpractice issues; Kushner's health and medical experiences; discussion of therapies and diagnoses; BreastPAC and other political topics and legislation; general requests for information and Center brochures. Of note are correspondence with William E. Colby (#8.6) about rates of cancer in the Soviet Union and Armand Hammer about Kushner's trip to China (#11.1, 12.2-12.3). Her correspondence with Representative Mary Rose Oakar (#9.5-9.7, 23.6) documents Kushner's role in developing cancer legislation.

The patient correspondence files primarily consists of letters from individuals reaching out to Kushner or the Center for support; expressing gratitude to Rose Kushner for writing her book and for being an advocate; inquiring or commenting on Rose's writings and opinions; requesting advice about surgery, doctors, and therapies; requesting recommendations for where to get breast cancer treatment; etc. The Breast Cancer Advisory Center responded to telephone and written requests for help with free fact sheets about various aspects of breast cancer, and there are numerous letters from the public and organizations regarding requests for these informational brochures. There is a large set of patient letters, spanning multiple years that were sequentially numbered. The archivist retained this organization, although it is unclear how this numeric identification was used by the organization. There are also log sheets, which contain notes most probably taken by staff during telephone conversations with patients, as well as patient questionnaires that Kushner distributed. Mailings folders (#47.6-47.11) may include mailing labels of organizations and letters from the organizations, as well as a copy of the solicitation letter from the Breast Cancer Advisory Center, either requesting support or purchase of the Center's brochures. This series is arranged chronologically.

Series IV, ORGANIZATIONS, 1965-1990 (#11.11-24.9, 50.8-51.2), contains materials related to the organizations Rose Kushner worked with or founded. Included are information sheets of the Breast Cancer Advisory Center and Kushner's study of state laws on informed consent (#11.11-11.20). Correspondence with Chinese physicians, and her diary of and report on her trip to China in 1984, document an epidemic of breast cancer in that country (#12.1-12.9, 51.2). Minutes and correspondence with the Mammatech Co., the maker of a breast self-examination kit, illustrate Kushner's view that self-examination and early detection were key to prevention (#13.4-14.2). Additionally there are incorporation documents and other papers of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, which Kushner helped to found in 1986 (#14.3-15.1). Minutes, correspondence, and reports document her service on the National Cancer Advisory Board, 1980-1986. Reports and correspondence of many National Cancer Institute task forces and projects of which she was a member are arranged chronologically and include the Office of Cancer Communications (#18.3-18.6), the Organ System Program (OSP) (#18.7-19.3), the Protocol Data Query (#19.4-19.7), Low Fat Cancer Trials (#20.1-20.8), and Women's Health Trials (#20.9-21.5). Other task force papers include a study of silicone breast implants (#7.10, 12.10-13.3), and of DES (Diethylstilbestrol #23.4-24.1). This series is arranged by organization.

Series V, PHOTOGRAPHS, 1960-1985, n.d. (#PD.1-PD.2, #81, #172) includes publicity photographs of Rose Kushner; a photograph of Rose and Harvey Kushner with others in Vietnam(?); Rose Kushner showing a model house to an unidentified man at McCall's Third National Conference on Better Living (#81); and flow charts showing the process of discovering, diagnosing and treating breast cancer (#81). Photograph folders from the original processed collections have retained their original folder numbering (#81, 172). The photographs in this collection are or will be digitized and available online. This series is arranged chronologically, beginning with undated folders.

Container List

• Series I. PERSONAL AND FAMILY, 1913-1997 (#1.1-1.16, 25.1-30.2, FD.1-FD.2, T-141.1-T-141.2, DVD-81.1)
  Scope and Contents: Series I, PERSONAL AND FAMILY, 1913-1997 (#1.1-1.16, 25.1-30.2, FD.1-FD.2, T-141.1-T-141.2, DVD-81.1), includes personal correspondence, notes, clippings, audiocassettes and partial transcript of an oral history interview, the first chapters of a memoir, and genealogical and other family data. Rose Kushner's travels to Europe in 1949 are documented by correspondence with family, with her mentor Dr. W. Horsley Gantt of the Pavlovian Society of America, and Maurice Hindus, the Russian-American writer, foreign correspondent, lecturer and authority on Soviet and Central European affairs, and a friend of Dr. Gantt. There is some correspondence written in Hebrew. Of note are materials related to Rose Kushner's memorial service in 1990; including professional and personal correspondence between Harvey and Rose Kushner's colleagues, friends, and supporters, and a DVD of the memorial at the National Institutes of Health on January 30, 1990. In addition, this series contains extensive clippings files consisting of articles published in medical journals and popular press about Rose Kushner and her interests and work in breast cancer research advocacy. A set of these clippings arrived at the library in folders by article title, and these have been retained in their original folders (#26.1-27.118). While this set of clippings contain a few articles by Rose Kushner (#27.21, 27.57, 27.82), for the majority of articles by Kushner, see Series II, Writings. This series is arranged by subject area.
  • 1.1. Biographical: genealogy, biographical data etc., 1984-1986
  • 25.1. Biographical: "Rose, Curriculum Vitae," 1982
  • 1.2. Biographical: oral history interview with Anne Kasper, 1983: partial transcript and essay by Kasper
  • T-141.1-2. Biographical: audiocassettes of interview with Anne Kasper, 1983
  • 1.3. Biographical: "I Wasn't Raised to Be a Jewish Mother," drafts of partial memoir, 1988
  • 25.2. Biographical: "I Wasn't Raised to Be a Jewish Mother," drafts of partial memoir, 1988
  • 1.4. Biographical: honors and awards, 1977-1988, including American Cancer Society's Medal of Honor, 1987
  • 25.3. Biographical: honors and awards, 1980-1994
  • FD.1. Biographical: honors and awards, 1985
  • 25.4. Biographical: honors and awards, "James Ewing Layman's award, Washington, DC, May 20-30, 1990," 1989-1990; includes correspondence, acceptance speech by Harvey Kushner
  • 25.5. Biographical: honors and awards, "ICI [Pharmaceuticals Group] award for Rose, Los Angeles, November 1990"; includes correspondence, acceptance speech by Harvey Kushner
  • 25.6. Education, 1941-1976; includes correspondence, clippings, transcripts, notebook; tickets to Lesley Kushner's high school graduation
  • 1.5. Education: The Robert E. Lee Junior High School and Forest Park High School (P.S. 49), etc., 1966-1986; includes reunion booklet and newsletters, Kushner's paper for Honors Research in Psychology (1966)
  • FD.2. Education: University of Maryland commencement program, 1972
  • 1.6. Education: re: nomination for honorary degree at University of Maryland, 1978-1984
  • 1.7. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner, 1967-1984
  • 25.7. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner, 1967-1985; includes re: Vietnam
  • 25.8. "Dr. Susan Bates (National Cancer Institute), articles by and about Rose returned," 1974-1997
  • 25.9. "Rose's press kits," 1979-1990; includes articles about Rose Kushner, resume, correspondence
  • 1.8. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner, 1985-1989
  • 25.10. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner, 1986-1994
  • 1.9. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner, n.d.
  • 26.1. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Victim Helps Others," March 1975
  • 26.2. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Sharing Education and Experience of Breast Cancer, Baltimore Sun, April 1975
  • 26.3. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner on Breast Cancer," The Washington Star, August 1975
  • 26.4. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer," Publishers Weekly, August 1975
  • 26.5. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Advisory Center to Be Launched by Rose Kushner," Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., September 1975
  • 26.6. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Advice" by Judith Randall, Daily News, September 1975
  • 26.7. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: biographical statement by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., September 1975
  • 26.8. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: A Positive Approach," Los Angeles Times, October 1975
  • 26.9. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "New Hotline Tackles Breast Cancer, The Flint Journal, October 1975
  • 26.10. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "She Mans Hotline for Breast Cancer," United Press International, October 1975
  • 26.11. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Center Has Facts on Breast Cancer," San Diego Union, October 1975
  • 26.12. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer," Baltimore Jewish Times, October 1975
  • 26.13. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "A Warning on Breast Surgery," San Francisco Examiner, October 1975
  • 26.14. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Ashkenazi Have High Cancer Rate," Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, October 1975
  • 26.15. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "She's An Expert on the Big C," Oakland Tribune, October 1975
  • 26.16. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Rose Kushner Deals Frankly with Breast Cancer in Book," The Jewish Week-American Examiner, October 1975
  • 26.17. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Mis Hepburn Meets Mr. Wayne...", The Times-Picayune, October 1975
  • 26.18. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer," San Francisco Examiner, October 1975
  • 26.19. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Sharing Education and Experience of Breast Cancer," November 1975
  • 26.20. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Women and Breast Cancer Subject of Laredo Junior College Lecture," November 1975
  • 26.21. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Using Knowledge to Fight Cancer," Chicago Tribune, November 1975
  • 26.22. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer," November 1975
  • 26.23. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "She Fought Breast Cancer," Montgomery Journal, November 1975
  • 26.24. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Rose Kushner, guest speaker at the Brotherhood of the Pickwick Jewish Center, November 1975?
  • 26.25. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Demanding Woman's Rights in Mastectomy," Providence Journal, December 1975
  • 26.26. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Discussion..." Intermountain Jewish News, January 1976
  • 26.27. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "American Medicine Is Studied in Today's Books," by Betty Stearns, January 1976
  • 26.28. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Detection," The Springfield Union, January 1976
  • 26.29. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Helping Those Who Fought with Cancer," The Washington Post, February 1976
  • 26.30. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Support for Cancer Patients," The Washington Star, March 1976
  • 26.31. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "C.A.N.C.E.R. The Facts and Fears of Cancer," WRFM radio station, February-March 1976
  • 26.32. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Don't Rush Into Mastectomy..." The North Jersey Suburbanite, March 1976
  • 26.33. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Judith Randal biography on Rose Kushner, May 1976
  • 26.34. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: American Medical Writers Association, May 1976
  • 26.35. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Is Breast Surgery Really Necessary?" New Dawn For Women, May 1976
  • 26.36. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Women's Watch," Montgomery Journal, August 1976
  • 26.37. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Information Service Begins," The Washington Post, September 1976
  • 26.38. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Reservations Close Today for Cancer Talk," The Cincinnati Post, September 1976
  • 26.39. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Author to Speak of Breast Cancer," The American Israelite, September 1976
  • 26.40. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cincinnati Ranks High on National Average List," The Cincinnati Post, October 1976
  • 26.41. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "The Pill Is Threat to Health...," The Cincinnati Enquirer, October 1976
  • 26.42. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Nursupport: Help Before Breast Cancer," Montgomery Journal, November 1976
  • 26.43. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Patients Value Their Options," The Capital Times, November 1976
  • 26.44. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "More Options for Breast Cancer Patients," Health Newsletter, December 1976
  • 26.45. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "She Wants Warning on Pill Containers," Fort Lauderdale News, January 1977
  • 26.46. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Controversies: X-Ray Perils, Radical Surgery," Newsday, January 1977
  • 26.47. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "The Malignant Needle in the Mammary Haystack," January 1977
  • 26.48. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: Author Charges Mastectomy Often Done Unnecessarily," Florida Times-Union, February 1977
  • 26.49. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Patient to Air Views," Florida Times-Union, February 1977
  • 26.50. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Anne's Reader Exchange," The Washington Post, March 1977
  • 26.51. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Easing Mastectomy," Human Behavior, March 1977
  • 26.52. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Rehab Team," New Directions for Women, Spring 1977
  • 26.53. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Mikulski Speaker at Women's Talks," The Baltimore Sun, June 1977
  • 26.54. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "War on Cancer- 'I Hope We Win'," Rochester Democrat Chronicle, November 1977
  • 26.55. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Author/Victim Tours 1A Departments," Body Fashions/Intimate Apparel, November 1977
  • 26.56. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: Sometimes There Are Choices," Buffalo, New York, 1978
  • 26.57. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Early Detection and Treatment Is a Must for Breast Cancer," The Amherst Bee, April 1978
  • 26.58. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Know Your Options on Breast Cancer...," Buffalo Courier Express, April 1978
  • 26.59. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "The Right to Know," Penthouse Forum, July 1978
  • 26.60. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Women Get Information on Breast Cancer Too Late," The Sunday Camera, August 1978
  • 26.61. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer and the Right to Know," Buenos Aires Herald, October 1978
  • 26.62. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Awareness Lecture," The Laredo News, November 1978
  • 26.63. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Education Key for Treatment of Breast Cancer," The Laredo News, November 1978
  • 26.64. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "'Lump Is Not a Tombstone'," San Antonio Express-News, November 1978
  • 26.65. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Sometimes, Even Mastectomy Can Be Cause for Celebration," March 1979
  • 26.66. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner Dedicates Life to Helping Women," May 1979
  • 26.67. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Judith Randal press release, May 1979
  • 26.68. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Freedom of Choice in Breast Surgery," Miami Herald, June 1979
  • 26.69. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Mastectomy and Radical Decisions," Daily News, June 1979
  • 26.70. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Judith Randal press release, June 1979
  • 26.71. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Writer Had Mastectomy, but on Her Own Terms," Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1979
  • 26.72. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Experts Propose Alternatives," National Women's Health Network press release, June 1979
  • 26.73. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: A Consensus That Less Is More," Time, June 1979
  • 26.74. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Patients Get Some Say in Breast Surgery," The Washington Post, June 1979
  • 26.75. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Use of Radical Halsted in State I Discouraged, Ob/Gyn News, July 1979
  • 26.76. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner Press MDS on Breast Cancer," New Directions for Women, Autumn 1979
  • 26.77. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "2-Step Breast Surgery, Newsday, September 1979
  • 26.78. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "How Doctors Are Changing Breast Cancer Treatment," Woman's Day, September 1979
  • 26.79. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "New Choices for Women with Breast Cancer," McCall's, October 1979
  • 26.80. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "A Woman's Crusade Against 'One-Step' Breast Surgery," The New York Times, October 1979
  • 26.81. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Crusade Against Hasty Mastectomies," The New York Times/The Stars and Stripes, December 1979
  • 26.82. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Mastectomies Aren't Routine, Thanks To Her," The Baltimore Sun?, 1980
  • 26.83. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Facts a Woman Needs to Know," Healthright, 1980
  • 26.84. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "New Resource on Breast Cancer," 1980
  • 26.85. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Using Knowledge to Fight Cancer," 1980
  • 26.86. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Test Offers Free Lifetime Care," January 1980
  • 26.87. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "NIH: Long Funding Process Beings," The Washington Post, February 1980
  • 26.88. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Victims Aided by Computer," Los Angeles Times, February 1980
  • 26.89. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Reducing the Trauma of Breast Cancer," New York Times Magazine, April 1980
  • 26.90. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Hotline: 'Not Responsive'," Montgomery Journal, April 1980
  • 26.91. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner:: "Breast Cancer: Rose Kushner's Fight for the Facts," The Evening Sun, May 1980
  • 26.92. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Goldstein Picked; Junior Welcomed; Howard Honored," Gainesville Sun, May 1980
  • 26.93. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Information Gap," The Baltimore Sun, May 1980
  • 26.94. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Why Me? Author on Crusade: More Breast Cancer Data Urged," The Baltimore Sun, June 1980
  • 26.95. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Rose Takes the Terror Out of Breast Cancer," Glasgow Herald, July 1980
  • 26.96. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Healthtalk: For Everywoman," September 1980
  • 26.97. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "What Every Woman Fears Most - Breast Cancer," Living Today, December 1980
  • 26.98. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Advisory Center," The Washington Star, 1981
  • 26.99. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Hotline to Resume Operation," Medical News, February 1981
  • 26.100. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Fear Is Greatest Obstacle in Fighting Breast Cancer," Buffalo News, February 1981
  • 26.101. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Help for cancer Patients," Montgomery Journal, March 1981
  • 26.102. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Hotline Opens," Montgomery Journal, April 1981
  • 26.103. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "She's Making Sure Breast Cancer Patients Get the Whole Story," May 1981
  • 26.104. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Doctors Are Human," May 1981
  • 26.105. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Hotline Re-Opens," Women and Health Roundtable, May 1981
  • 26.106. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Hotline Launched by Patient Advocate Rose Kushner," May 1981
  • 26.107. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Hotline to Reopen Monday," The Baltimore Sun, May 1981
  • 26.108. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Rose Kushner: Founder of Breast Cancer Advisory Center," American Medical Writers Association Newsletter, June 1981
  • 26.109. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Promoters Say Light Can Screen Cancer," Akron Beacon Journal, June 1981; "Not Fair," The Evening Bulletin, July 1981
  • 26.110. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner's Crusade Continues," The Washington Star, June 1981
  • 26.111. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Consumer Advocate Seeking Mammography Regulations," U.S. Medicine, July 1981
  • 26.112. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Hotline," McCalls, December 1981
  • 26.113. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Open Season on the National Cancer Program," Medical Tribune, December 1981
  • 26.114. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Limited Surgery May Be Best," Tribune-Review, December 1981
  • 26.115. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Early Warning System Can Detect Cancer; Save a Life," Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December 1981
  • 26.116. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "New Test Will Help Millions of Women Cut Cancer Risk," National Enquirer, January 1982
  • 26.117. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Bill of Rights for Breast Cancer Patients," Montgomery Journal, February 1982
  • 27.1. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Clash Looms on Breast Cancer Bill," The Sun, February 1982; "The Right to Know," The Sun, March 1982
  • 27.2. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Hope for Breast Cancer: Medical Advances and the Efforts of Feminists Have Meant Real Alternatives in Treatment," Daily News, February 1982
  • 27.3. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Institute to Speed Treatment," The Washington Post, March 1982
  • 27.4. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Book Result of Personal Experience," Daytona Beach Evening News, April 1982
  • 27.5. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Consumer Health Info newsletter, April 1982
  • 27.6. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Political Breast Cancer Battle," The Washington Post, April 1982
  • 27.7. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Patients Who Made Waves in Breast Cancer," Medical World News, April 1982
  • 27.8. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Breast Cancer book review, The New York Times, June 1982
  • 27.9. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Why Me? capsule book review, The New York Times, June 1982
  • 27.10. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Author Describes Recovery from Breast Cancer Surgery," St. Louis Jewish Light, June 1982
  • 27.11. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Why Me? book review, Oncology Times, September 1982
  • 27.12. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "People/Rose Kushner," Maryland Today, October 1982
  • 27.13. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Why Me? book review, New England Journal of Medicine, October 1982
  • 27.14. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: advertisement for brochure, Hot Flash, vol. 2, 1983
  • 27.15. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: Ann Landers, Sunday News, February 1983
  • 27.16. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "My Side," Working Women, May 1983
  • 27.17. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: M Space alumni magazine, College of Journalism, University of Maryland, August 1983
  • 27.18. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Improving Breast Self Examination," The New York Times, August 1983
  • 27.19. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "In Some States Breast Surgery Choice Now Law," San Antonio Light, October 1983
  • 27.20. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Crusader," University of Maryland Alumni Magazine, October 1983
  • 27.21. Clippings and articles by Rose Kushner: "Metamorphosis Discovered," ASJA (American Society for Journalists and Authors?) newsletter, November 1983
  • 27.22. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Patient Fights for Options," Los Angeles Times, January 1984
  • 27.23. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Let's Salute Breast Cancer Crusader Rose Kushner," Toronto Star, 1984
  • 27.24. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: New Research, New Options," New York, January-February 1984
  • 27.25. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Lumpectomy: Another Expert Voices Concern," The Evening Sun, February 1984
  • 27.26. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "The Breast Cancer Controversy," Atlanta Constitution, March 1984
  • 27.27. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Common Sense about Cancer Can Help Beat It," The Sunday Star-Ledger, March 1984
  • 27.28. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Baby Boom Now, Breast Cancer Later?" American Health, March/April 1984
  • 27.29. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: advertisement for Alternatives, Network News, March/April 1984
  • 27.30. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: Controversial Disease,"The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 1984
  • 27.31. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Institute: A Rare Center," Desert Post, April 1984
  • 27.32. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Healthtalk: Breast Cancer Update," The Washington Post, April 1984
  • 27.33. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Victim Hopes Congress Will Help," The Montgomery Journal, June 1984
  • 27.34. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Rose Kushner Fights for Breast Cancer Awareness," Desert Post, June 1984
  • 27.35. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "One Woman's Alternatives," The Toronto Sun, "Let's Salute Breast Cancer Crusader Rose Kushner," Toronto Star, September 1984
  • 27.36. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Make Own Decisions on Breast Cancer, Ex-Patient Advises," The Globe and Mail, October 1984
  • 27.37. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Mastectomy Sometimes Too Radical," The Cincinnati Enquirer, October 1984
  • 27.38. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Books in Review," Oncology Times, November 1984
  • 27.39. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Survival Rate Progress Is Report, but Skeptics Object, The New York Times, November 1984
  • 27.40. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Lack of Referrals Hindering Study," U.S. Medicine, November 1984
  • 27.41. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "One Woman's War on Breast Cancer," The Honolulu Advertiser, January 1985
  • 27.42. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: New Controversy," The Washington Post, January 1985
  • 27.43. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Debate Erupts over Breast Cancer Treatment," The Evening News, February 1985
  • 27.44. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Obsessed with Health," The Washington Post, February 1985
  • 27.45. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Lumpectomy and Survival," Newsday, February 1985
  • 27.46. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "The Case for Chemotherapy after Breast Cancer Surgery," Washington Post Health, February 1985
  • 27.47. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Fighter Is Now Battling Flagrant Use of Chemotherapy," The Miami News, February 1985
  • 27.48. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Expert Plans Seminar at Eckerd Hall," The Suncoast News, March 1985
  • 27.49. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Limited Surgery Backed for Many Breast Cancers," The Washington Post, March 1985
  • 27.50. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Recovered Breast Cancer Victim to Offer Advice," Clearwater Sun Times, April 1985
  • 27.51. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: re: prophylactic mastectomy, Mother Jones, April 1985
  • 27.52. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Stop the 'Overkill' of Breast Cancer, Speaker Urges," Clearwater Sun, April 1985
  • 27.53. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "An Alternative to Mastectomy," Glasgow Herald, June 1985
  • 27.54. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Chemotherapy Is Best for Some Patients," The Montgomery Journal, June 1985
  • 27.55. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Mastectomy: Is this Operation Becoming Obsolete?" Family Circle, June 1985
  • 27.56. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner Still Taking on Medical Establishment," The Montgomery Journal, June 1985
  • 27.57. Clippings and articles by Rose Kushner: "Kushner Stands by Her Argument," The Montgomery Journal, July 1985
  • 27.58. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Adjuvant Chemotherapy Questionable: Do Side Effects Outweigh Merits of this Preventive Treatment, Used After Breast Surgery" The Cincinnati Enquirer, August 1985
  • 27.59. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Some Chemotherapy Fails against Cancer," The New York Times, August 1985
  • 27.60. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Give Hormones to Older Breast Cancer Patients, Panel Says," The Miami Herald, September 1985
  • 27.61. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Drug Cuts Deaths," USA Today, September 1985
  • 27.62. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Hormone Therapy Endorsed for Some Breast Cancers," The Washington Post, September 1985
  • 27.63. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Treatment Quandary," The Washington Post, September 1985
  • 27.64. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Epidemic Warning, UICC News (International Union Against Cancer) , September 1985
  • 27.65. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Which Treatment? Experts Argue Over the Merits of Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer," Gannett News Service, September 1985
  • 27.66. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Analysis Stirs a Debate at Parley," The New York Times, September 1985
  • 27.67. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: A New Test," The Washington Post, September 1985
  • 27.68. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Chemotherapy Critic Lauds Alternative," Miami News, September 1985
  • 27.69. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "After Cancer: A Drug to Prevent Recurrence," Time, September 1985
  • 27.70. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "'Mrs. Breast Cancer' Keeps Up the Fight," American Medical News, October 1985
  • 27.71. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Rose Kushner Highlights Einstein Breast Cancer Symposium," Jewish Times, October 1985
  • 27.72. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "NIH Consensus Statement on Adjuvant Chemo for Breast Cancer Establishes Role for TMX," Oncology Times, November 1985
  • 27.73. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "'I Made That Decision...' Many More Breast Cancer Patients Have Been Getting Involved in Choosing Their Treatment," The Montgomery Journal, December 1985
  • 27.74. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Woman Champions Patients' Rights," The Montgomery Journal, May 1986
  • 27.75. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Measures Signed," The Washington Post, May 1986
  • 27.76. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Fibrocystic Breasts," Newsday, May 1986
  • 27.77. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Pay for Breast X-Rays Due," The Evening Sun, May 1986
  • 27.78. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Treating Breast Cancer: A Status Report," The New York Times, June 1986
  • 27.79. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Early Detection Is Key in Breast Cancer," The New York Times, June 1986
  • 27.80. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: Assessing the Role of Hormones," The New York Times, June 1986
  • 27.81. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Update: Beyond Mastectomy," Health, June 1986
  • 27.82. Clippings and articles by Rose Kushner: "A Choice for Men," Cope Magazine, August 1986
  • 27.83. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Belief That Jewish Women Are Prone to breast Cancer Studied," The Jewish Week, October 1986
  • 27.84. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Lack of Patients May Close Breast Cancer X-Ray Clinic," The Montgomery Journal, December 1986
  • 27.85. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: mammography screening laws, 1986-1987
  • 27.86. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer: The News Is Good for Senior Adult Women," Jewish Community Center Scene, March 1987
  • 27.87. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Spelling Out Breast Cancer Care," The Montgomery Journal, June 1987
  • 27.88. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "New Law Informs Women of Choices," The South County Times (Clinton, Maryland), July 1987
  • 27.89. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Panel Urges Prostate Cancer Trials," Medical World News, July 1987
  • 27.90. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Freedom of Choice," Savvy, July 1987
  • 27.91. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner Turned Breast Cancer into Her Cause," News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee), September 1987
  • 27.92. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "People," Coping Magazine, September 1987
  • 27.93. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "The Biggest Problem Is the Fear," The Baltimore Sun, October 1987
  • 27.94. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Mastectomy Seen as Extreme Treatment," The New York Times, October 1987
  • 27.95. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Prostate Cancer: What Men Don't Know," The Washington Post, November 1987
  • 27.96. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Washington Notables Receive National Recognition for Cancer Work," Cancer Comments, December 1987
  • 27.97. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "American Cancer Society Elects New Officers to Board of Directors," Oncology Times, December 1987
  • 27.98. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Making Medicare Pay for Mammograms," The Washington Post, February 1988
  • 27.99. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Hospital Division Sponsors Women's Health Meeting," The Buffalo News, April 1988
  • 27.100. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner to Speak at Rider College," The Trentonian (New Jersey), April 1988
  • 27.101. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Women Urged to Get Second Opinion on Breast Cancer," The San Diego Union, April 1988
  • 27.102. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer A Political Issue, New Fund-Raising Group Told," Contra Costa Times, May 1988
  • 27.103. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Patient Rights Advocate," Coping Magazine, May 1988
  • 27.104. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Making Medicare Pay for Mammograms," Cancer News, June 1988
  • 27.105. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner Forms BreastPAC," The Cancer Letter, June 1988
  • 27.106. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Kushner Creates PAC to Combat Breast Cancer," The Montgomery Journal, June 1988
  • 27.107. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Persistent Paradoxes in Breast Cancer," The Washington Post, June 1988
  • 27.108. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "America's 100 Most Important Women," Ladies' Home Journal, November 1988
  • 27.109. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Advocates Seeking Mammography Regulations," U.S. Medicine, April 1989
  • 27.110. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Answers Draws a Large Attendance," Hope & Cope Newsletter, Summer 1989
  • 27.111. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Cancer Experts See a Need for Caution on Use of Birth Pill," The New York Times, September 1989
  • 27.112. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Breast Cancer Getting Attention in Congress," Journal of the National Cancer Institute, January 1990
  • 27.113. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "In Memory of Rose Kushner," Bosom Buddies, March 1990
  • 27.114. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Chemotherapy: A Recommendation to Be Questioned," The Glasgow Herald, August 1990
  • 27.115. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "The Chemotherapy Debate," The Glasgow Herald, August 1990
  • 27.116. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Women in Washington," Glamour, November 1990
  • 27.117. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: The World Who's Who of Women, eleventh edition, November 1990
  • 27.118. Clippings and articles re: Rose Kushner: "Health Talk," The Washington Post, April 1994
  • 28.1. Letters from Dr. W. Horsley Gantt, 1948-1972
  • 28.2. Letters from Maurice Hindus, 1949-1950
  • 28.3. Cards from friends? family?, n.d.; includes postcard from Helen [?] in Australia; birthday card from "dadd"?
  • 28.4. Miscellaneous: "notes and journal," 1949?; contains three pages of notes during trip to Europe
  • 28.5. Miscellaneous: "South Vietnam friends memorabilia," 1970-1973; includes notebook with questions/answers during Senate Foreign Relations Committee Fulbright hearings on Vietnam?; cards from friends
  • 1.10. Miscellaneous: financial, 1971-1989
  • 28.6. Miscellaneous: "Madame Le's[?]/Chung [Nguyen's] expenses," [Kushners were hosting student Chung Nguyen in the United States], 1972-1974; includes letters
  • 1.11. Miscellaneous: pen used in signing HB.1320 CH.559, HB.1316 CH.558 of the acts of the general assembly of Maryland, presented to Rose Kushner by Governor Harry Hughes, 1986
  • 1.12. Miscellaneous: travel to Soviet Union, n.d., and Vietnam, 1987
  • 28.7. Family: "Fannie Rehert and Israel Goldie," 1913, 1917, 1932; includes note in Hebrew; letter signing over property from Haray? Fisher to Goldie Shwartz (1932)
  • 28.8. Family: "letters from Ike [brother Isaac Rehert] in Europe, 1942-1947; includes letter from prison for evading the draft?
  • 28.9. Family: "Rose's family correspondence," 1944-1971, n.d.
  • 28.10. Family: "Burton [?] letters," 1948-1949; includes notes to Rose Kushner from Dora (Burton's wife); includes re: politics, current events, psychology, Zionism, contraception, Rose Kushner's education, etc.
  • 28.11. Family: "letters from Rose in Europe to Baltimore," 1949; includes occupational force travel permit; letters to Dr. W. Horsley Gantt; postcards
  • 28.12. Family: "letters from 'mommy' [sent to Rose Kushner while she was traveling in Europe]," 1949
  • 28.13. Family: "other Europe memorabilia [primarily letters from family]," 1949
  • 28.14. Family: "Harvey's cartoons, Rose saved," 1959, 1971, n.d.
  • 1.13. Family: Harvey Kushner, 1963, 1985-1989; includes clippings and articles about Harvey Kushner; citation from John Hopkins University
  • 28.15. Family: miscellaneous, 1966-1992, n.d.; includes party invitations; Rock Creek Palisades Elementary school handbook for parents (1966); Montgomery County High Technology Council list (1992); notes
  • 28.16. Family: Gantt Kushner, 1970, n.d.
  • 28.17. Family: "Ike's articles about us (Rose and Kushners)," 1970-1972: a selection of Rose Kushner's brother Isaac Rehert's feature column for the Baltimore Sun
  • 1.14. Family: Lesley Kushner, 1976, 1981-1989; includes correspondence between Lesley and Rose Kushner; graphic design samples by Lesley
  • 1.15. Family: Gantt Kushner and Todd Kushner, 1984-1988, n.d.; includes clippings; flyers; correspondence
  • 1.16. Family: Harvey Kushner re: Rose Kushner's last illness, 1990
  • 28.18. Family: notes re: Kushners' travels across Europe and Asia, n.d.
  • 28.19. Harvey Kushner correspondence with "Radcliffe College," 1990: re: donation of Rose Kushner's papers
  • 28.20. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: "memorial references," 1987-1989; includes professional correspondence; report: "Mammography Screening Versus The Cost of Dying" (1987)
  • 28.21. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: "flowers and gifts of food," 1990
  • 28.22. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: "telephone calls re: Rose" (lists), 1990
  • 28.23. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: "letters to/from speakers at memorial for Rose at National Institutes of Health auditorium, January 1990"
  • 28.24. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: Harvey Kushner, "letters and cards from friends," 1990
  • 28.25. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: Harvey Kushner, "letters from colleagues she worked with...February-May 1990, n.d."
  • 28.26-29.7. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: Harvey Kushner, 1990; includes thank you letters to Harvey Kushner re: receipt of Rose Kushner's book; Rose Kushner's death, memorial, legacy, last edition of her book If You've Thought About Breast Cancer...; letters of condolences (9 folders)
  • 29.8-30.1. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: Harvey Kushner, 1990-1991 (4 folders)
  • 30.2. Rose Kushner's memorial and related: Harvey Kushner, 1990, 1995; includes memorial program
  • DVD-81.1. Rose Kushner memorial at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). January 30, 1990. DVD. 58:15 min.

• Series II. WRITINGS, 1951-1990 (#2.1-8.1, 30.3-30.18)
  Scope and Contents: Series II, WRITINGS, 1951-1990 (#2.1-8.1, 30.3-30.18), includes published articles, drafts, book outlines, forewords, and related correspondence on breast cancer. There are papers on experimental psychology, articles and an outline for a novel on Vietnam, and articles about Kushner's Jewish heritage. Her conference papers and talks, 1976-1989 (#6.5-6.8, 6.10), draw on her own experience as a cancer patient, describe the psychological and emotional aspects of the disease, emphasize the importance of the support of nurses and social workers, condemn unnecessary radical mastectomy, and testify that even radical mastectomy need not be mutilating. The expert testimonies (#6.12-8.1) given by Kushner to federal agencies, congressional and other committees, and in legal depositions illustrates her campaign to have annual mammography covered by health insurance, and her concern for patients' bills of rights. This series is arranged by category.
  • 2.1. On breast cancer: "The Breast Cancer Controversy," 1974
  • 2.2. On breast cancer: Why Me?: outline, 1974
  • 2.3. On breast cancer: Why Me?: typescript draft, [1975]; correspondence, 1979-1980; includes award for distinguished medical writing from American Medical Writers Association
  • 2.4-2.5. On breast cancer: Why Me?: update, 1980
  • 2.6. On breast cancer: Why Me?: foreword, 1981 edition
  • 30.3. On breast cancer: Why Me?: "single orders for Why Me?," 1983-1984
  • 30.4. On breast cancer: Why Me?: Alternatives, second edition of Why Me?: book review and promotional, 1982-1984
  • 2.7. On breast cancer: Why Me?: Alternatives, second edition of Why Me?: correspondence with American Institute for Cancer Research, 1983-1986
  • 2.8. On breast cancer: Why Me?: Alternatives, second edition of Why Me?: drafts, correspondence, 1984, 1986-1987
  • 2.9. On breast cancer: Why Me?: Alternatives, second edition of Why Me?: financial reports, 1984-1986
  • 2.10. On breast cancer: Why Me?: Alternatives, second edition of Why Me?: agreement, 1981, with revisions; correspondence with Harriet Pilpel, 1984-1986.
  • 2.11. On breast cancer: Why Me?: Alternatives, second edition of Why Me?: correspondence with Warner Books, 1984-1985
  • 2.12. On breast cancer: Why Me?: Alternatives, second edition of Why Me?: correspondence with Warner Books, 1986
  • 2.13. On breast cancer: Why Me?: Alternatives, second edition of Why Me?: correspondence with Warner Books, 1987, n.d.
  • 2.14. On breast cancer: with Michael Baum, 1986
  • 2.15. On breast cancer: "Before Breast Surgery," 1975
  • 2.16. On breast cancer: "Early Detection Programs for Breast Cancer" and other articles, 1976
  • 30.5. On breast cancer: letters to the editor (The Washington Post; Oncology Times), 1976, 1983
  • 2.17. On breast cancer, 1978: "Psychoemotional Aspects of Breast Cancer," "Round the Clock Chemotherapy," "Cancer Vaccine;" "Non-Invasive Test for Breast Cancer," "The Equal Rights Amendment Is Not the Only ERA"
  • 3.1. On breast cancer: "A Gift of Time" (movie project): draft ("Wind Shadow"), 1978
  • 3.2. On breast cancer: "A Gift of Time" (movie project): typescript draft, 1978
  • 3.3. On breast cancer: "A Gift of Time" (movie project): typescript draft, 1978
  • 3.4. On breast cancer: "A Gift of Time" (movie project): correspondence, 1978-1984
  • 3.5. On breast cancer, 1979: "Breast Cancer Follow-up," "The Perils of Laetrile," "Carcinogens Made Kosher: 'Cancer Promotors'," "Your Options...in Breast-Cancer Treatment," "Psychosocial Aspects of Breast Cancer," "Two-stage"
  • 3.6. On breast cancer: "Breast Cancer: Where We're At," 1980 video project
  • 3.7. On breast cancer: "The Treatment of Primary Breast Cancer," 1980
  • 30.6. On breast cancer: "Breast Cancer Update: The First Finding of a Lump Used to Signal Action; Now It Triggers Controversy," New York Daily News Magazine, May 25, 1980
  • 3.8. On breast cancer: "If You've Thought About Breast Cancer": correspondence, 1980-1987, n.d.
  • 30.7. On breast cancer: "If You've Thought About Breast Cancer": draft 7, n.d.
  • 30.8. On breast cancer: "If You've Thought About Breast Cancer": draft 9, ca.1990: "last edited version by Rose"
  • 3.9. On breast cancer: "You Mean I Had a Mastectomy for Nothing?," includes correspondence, 1981
  • 3.10. On breast cancer, 1981: "Sounding Board," "A Program to Encourage Early Detection and Treatment of Breast Cancer by Giving Information and Emotional Support," "Estrogen Receptor Assay"
  • 3.11. On breast cancer, 1982: "Coping with Breast Cancer" (2 typescript drafts), "Informed Consent," "The Low-fat Low Cancer Cambridge Diet," "Recurrence."
    See folder #81 for photographs removed from this folder.
  • 3.12. On breast cancer, 1983: "Careers Before Carriages," "Breast Cancer Detection Update"
  • 3.13. On breast cancer: "What You Should Know About Benign Breast Problems," typescript draft, printed article, 1984; includes correspondence with American Institute of Cancer Research, 1983-1985.
  • 4.1. On breast cancer: re: adjuvant chemotherapy: "Is Aggressive Adjuvant Chemotherapy the Halsted Radical of the 80s?" 1984, correspondence, research, 1982-1985
  • 30.9. On breast cancer: re: adjuvant chemotherapy: "Is Aggressive Adjuvant Chemotherapy the Halsted Radical of the 80s?" (feedback), CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (vol. 35, #3, May/June 1985), 1984-1985; includes related correspondence
  • 4.2. On breast cancer: re: adjuvant chemotherapy: printed re: adjuvant chemotherapy, 1976-1985
  • 4.3. On breast cancer: re: adjuvant chemotherapy: Marc Lippman and Bruce Chabner response to Kushner's article, 1985
  • 4.4. On breast cancer: re: adjuvant chemotherapy: "Adjuvant Chemotherapy Revisited," 1985; includes correspondence re: article in Field Liaison Newsletter, 1987
  • 4.5. On breast cancer: "Prophylactic Mastectomy," 1985
  • 4.6. On breast cancer: "Men Get Up and Fight," for Cope, 1986
  • 4.7. On breast cancer: correspondence with Cope, 1986-1989
  • 4.8. On breast cancer, 1986: "DRGs" (Diagnostic Related Groups)
  • 4.9. On breast cancer: re: aerobic exercise and cancer: story idea, mostly printed, 1986
  • 4.10. On breast cancer: "Hermine," 1987
  • 4.11. On breast cancer: "Novaldex and You," 1988, re: tamoxifen; includes correspondence, 1983-1989
  • 4.12. On breast cancer, 1988 and prior: "Coping with Breast Cancer: What Health Professionals Can Do to Help": 3 typescript drafts and printed; review of John F. Potter's How to Improve Your Odds Against Cancer
  • 4.13. On breast cancer: articles, n.d.
  • 30.10. On breast cancer: "Gynecological Group Stresses Breast Disease," n.d.
  • 4.14. On breast cancer: partial bibliography of Kushner's breast cancer articles, 1979-1988
  • 4.15. On breast cancer: correspondence re: articles, 1981-1984
  • 30.11. Writings not on breast cancer: "Rose's early writing memorabilia," 1951-1972; includes rejection letters, College Crier (Baltimore Junior College) newspaper where Rose Rehert was a reporter; payments re: writing submissions; editors' comments on submission; National Press Club membership letter; journalism award (1972)
  • 4.16. Writings not on breast cancer: correspondence with New Yorker re: possible profiles; and with Dr. W. Horsley Gantt, 1953-1954
  • 5.1. Writings not on breast cancer: "The Possible Function of a Schedule of Reinforcement as a Conditioned Discriminative Stimulus," [1966]
  • 30.12-30.13. Writings not on breast cancer: re: Vietnam, 1968-1976, 1986; includes correspondence; clippings; notes; press releases; drafts; statement by General Nguyen Chanh Thi (30.12); report: "Refugee Program Assessed by a Refugee" by Phan Quang Dan (30.12); "Proclamation of the Daiviet Revolutionary Party (30.13); clipping re: Asian students in science competition (1986) (30.13).
    See folder #PD.2 for a photograph removed from this folder. (#30.12)
  • 30.14. Writings not on breast cancer: re: abortion, Tay-Sachs disease, 1970-1974
  • 5.2. Writings not on breast cancer: re: Vietnam, 1971, and correspondence, 1967-1970
  • 30.15. Writings not on breast cancer: Public Affairs Press, 1973; includes outline for book proposal Federal Triangles: Washington Jews and Jews in Washington
  • 5.3. Writings not on breast cancer: "Vietnam: A Tourist Mecca?" 1973, and tourist material, maps
  • 5.4. Writings not on breast cancer: "Magyar!" 1973 (play)
  • 5.5. Writings not on breast cancer: "In the Works" 1973-1974
  • 5.6. Writings not on breast cancer: "In the Works," n.d.
  • 30.16. Writings not on breast cancer: "The Palestinian Question: What Nixon Should Know," Baltimore Jewish Times, June 28, 1974
  • 30.17. Writings not on breast cancer: re: depression, 1974-ca.1979
  • 5.7-5.8. Writings not on breast cancer: outline of novel about Vietnam, 1971, 1978
  • 5.9. Writings not on breast cancer: articles, 1978-1981
  • 5.10. Writings not on breast cancer: story idea re: Nguyen Be, 1981-1982.
    See also #8.18.
  • 5.11. Writings not on breast cancer: "What's a Nice Jewish Girl Like Me...," re: America's Cup race, 1983
  • 5.12. Writings not on breast cancer: short stories, 1983
  • 5.13. Writings not on breast cancer: re: scriptwriting, 1988
  • 5.14. Writings not on breast cancer: correspondence with Agender Films, Ltd., 1988-1989
  • 30.18. Writings not on breast cancer: "General Dirty Tricks," (re: Major General Edward G. Lansdale) Capital Comment, n.d.
  • 6.1. Writings not on breast cancer: "miscellaneous old ms.," n.d.
  • 6.2. Writings not on breast cancer: typescript drafts, n.d.
  • 6.3. Writings not on breast cancer: "ideas, etc.," printed and manuscript, 1974-1987, n.d.
  • 6.4. Conference papers, programs: McCall's Third National Conference on Better Living, May 16-18, 1960.
    See folder #81 for photographs removed from this folder.
  • 6.5. Conference papers, programs, 1976-1978
  • 6.6. Conference papers, programs, 1979-1980
  • 6.7. Conference papers, programs, 1981-1982
  • 6.8. Conference papers, programs, 1983-1986
  • 6.9. Conference papers, programs: 9th Bristol-Myers Symposium, 1986
  • 6.10. Conference papers, programs, 1987-1989
  • 6.11. Conference papers, programs: programs, 1983-1989
  • 6.12. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: Senate Sub-Committee on Health, 1976
  • 7.1. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: National Institutes of Health Consensus Committee, House Sub-Committee on Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources 1977; includes correspondence, 1977-1979
  • 7.2. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 1978
  • 7.3. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: House Labor and Health, Education and Welfare Appropriations Committee, 1980
  • 7.4. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: Maryland General Assembly: testimony, bills, and correspondence, 1982-1986
  • 7.5. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: Maryland General Assembly: testimony, correspondence, 1987-1990
  • 7.6. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: House Sub-Committee on Health, 1984; includes published hearings re: effect of radiation on human health of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (partial), 1978
  • 7.7. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: Congressional bills to provide coverage for pap smears and mammograms, 1984-1987
  • 7.8. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: House Committee on Aging, 1985
  • 7.9. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: House Sub-Committee on Health, 1987
  • 7.10. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: United States Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee re: breast implants, 1988.
    See also #12.10-13.3.
  • 7.11. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: others' testimony, 1988
  • 7.12-8.1. Testimony, etc., before Congressional committees, etc.: Kushner and Manes v. HEW and FDA: legal depositions re: drug labeling, 1976 (4 folders)

• Series III. CORRESPONDENCE, 1973-1992 (#8.2-11.10, 30.19-50.7)
  Scope and Contents: Series III, CORRESPONDENCE, 1973-1992 (#8.2-11.10, 30.19-50.7) contains professional correspondence primarily with Rose Kushner in her role as founder and Executive Director of the Breast Cancer Advisory Center. Correspondents include other medical professionals, concerned public, patients, advocates, teachers, journals and non-profit health centers and universities; friends; and others, including staff of the Center and Dr. Thomas Dao, a medical advisor on the Center's board. Topics in the correspondence folders include development in cancer therapies; Rose Kushner's books and other writings; publicity and speaking engagements; correspondence with doctors re: referrals of patients; Kushner's participation in symposia, lectures, speaking engagements; conferences and meetings; Kushner's television appearances; Breast Cancer Advisory Center support and funding; medical malpractice issues; Kushner's health and medical experiences; discussion of therapies and diagnoses; BreastPAC and other political topics and legislation; general requests for information and Center brochures. Of note are correspondence with William E. Colby (#8.6) about rates of cancer in the Soviet Union and Armand Hammer about Kushner's trip to China (#11.1, 12.2-12.3). Her correspondence with Representative Mary Rose Oakar (#9.5-9.7, 23.6) documents Kushner's role in developing cancer legislation.

  The patient correspondence files primarily consists of letters from individuals reaching out to Kushner or the Center for support; expressing gratitude to Rose Kushner for writing her book and for being an advocate; inquiring or commenting on Rose's writings and opinions; requesting advice about surgery, doctors, and therapies; requesting recommendations for where to get breast cancer treatment; etc. The Breast Cancer Advisory Center responded to telephone and written requests for help with free fact sheets about various aspects of breast cancer, and there are numerous letters from the public and organizations regarding requests for these informational brochures. There is a large set of patient letters, spanning multiple years that were sequentially numbered. The archivist retained this organization, although it is unclear how this numeric identification was used by the organization. There are also log sheets, which contain notes most probably taken by staff during telephone conversations with patients, as well as patient questionnaires that Kushner distributed. Mailings folders (#47.6-47.11) may include mailing labels of organizations and letters from the organizations, as well as a copy of the solicitation letter from the Breast Cancer Advisory Center, either requesting support or purchase of the Center's brochures. This series is arranged chronologically.
  • 30.19. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1973
  • 8.2. Correspondence, January-February 1974
  • 8.3. Correspondence, March-April 1974
  • 8.4. Correspondence, May-June 1974
  • 8.5. Correspondence, August-September 1974
  • 8.6. Correspondence, October-December 1974: includes correspondence with CIA director William E. Colby re: her visit to USSR
  • 30.20. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1974
  • 8.7. Correspondence, January-March 1975
  • 8.8. Correspondence, April-June 1975
  • 8.9. Correspondence, July-August 1975
  • 8.10. Correspondence, September 1975
  • 8.11. Correspondence, October 1975
  • 8.12. Correspondence, November 1975
  • 8.13. Correspondence, December 1975
  • 31.1-31.6. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1975, n.d.
  • 8.14. Correspondence with Food and Drug Administration (FDA), members of Congress re: DES and oral contraceptives, 1975-1976
  • 31.7. Correspondence: "Rose's replies and non-usable letters," 1975-1979; includes patient letters, general correspondence
  • 31.8-31.12. Log sheets, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.1. Questionnaires, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.2. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00001-00060, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.3. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00061-00120, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.4. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00121-00165, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.5. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00166-00250, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.6. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00251-00325, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.7. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00326-00380, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.8. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00381-00445, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.9. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00446-00500, ca.1975-1979
  • 32.10. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00501-00560, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.1. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00561-00625, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.2. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00626-00685, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.3. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00686-00750, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.4. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00751-00800, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.5. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00801-00850, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.6. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00851-00900, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.7. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00901-00950, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.8. Correspondence with patients, et al., #00951-01000, ca.1975-1979
  • 33.9. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01001-01050, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.1. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01051-01100, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.2. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01101-01140, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.3. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01141-01200, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.4. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01201-01250, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.5. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01251-01320, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.6. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01321-01380, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.7. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01381-01450, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.8. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01451-01500, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.9. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01501-01575, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.10. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01576-01625, ca.1975-1979
  • 34.11. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01626-01690, ca.1975-1979
  • 35.1. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01691-01750, ca.1975-1979
  • 35.2. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01751-01800, ca.1975-1979
  • 35.3. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01801-01854, ca.1975-1979
  • 35.4. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01875-01910, ca.1975-1980
  • 35.5. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01911-01950, ca.1975-1980
  • 35.6. Correspondence with patients, et al., #01951-02004, 1980
  • 35.7-35.8. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1975-1981
  • 35.9. Correspondence, January-February 1976
  • 35.10. Correspondence, March-April 1976
  • 36.1. Correspondence, May-June 1976
  • 36.2. Correspondence, July-August 1976
  • 36.3. Correspondence, September-October 1976
  • 36.4. Correspondence, November-December 1976
  • 36.5-37.3. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1976, n.d. (9 folders)
  • 8.15. Correspondence with Martin Baron re: case of Marcia Halpern, 1976-1981
  • 37.4. Correspondence, January-February 1977
  • 37.5. Correspondence, March-April 1977
  • 37.6. Correspondence, May-June 1977
  • 37.7. Correspondence, July-October 1977
  • 37.8. Correspondence, November-December 1977
  • 37.9-38.1. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1977; includes re: Congressional hearings on the National Cancer Program (37.9) (3 folders)
  • 8.16. Correspondence: White House Correspondents' Association, etc., 1977-1988; includes programs for the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner; invitation to celebrate Women's Equalty Day, 1984; thank you letter to Rose Kushner from First Lady Barbara Bush
  • 38.2. Correspondence, January 1978
  • 38.3. Correspondence, February 1978
  • 38.4. Correspondence, March 1978
  • 38.5. Correspondence, April 1978
  • 38.6. Correspondence, May 1978
  • 38.7. Correspondence, June 1978
  • 38.8. Correspondence, July-August 1978
  • 38.9. Correspondence, September-October 1978
  • 38.10. Correspondence, November-December 1978
  • 38.11-38.13. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1978, n.d.
  • 8.17. Correspondence, 1978-1980
  • 38.14. Correspondence, January-February 1979
  • 39.1. Correspondence, March 1979
  • 39.2. Correspondence, April 1979
  • 39.3. Correspondence, May-June 1979
  • 39.4. Correspondence, July-August 1979
  • 39.5. Correspondence, September 1979
  • 39.6. Correspondence, October 1979
  • 39.7. Correspondence, November-December 1979
  • 39.8-39.10. Correspondence with patients, etc. 1979, n.d.
  • 40.1. Correspondence, January 1980
  • 40.2. Correspondence, February 1980
  • 40.3. Correspondence, March 1980
  • 40.4. Correspondence, April 1980
  • 40.5. Correspondence, May 1980
  • 40.6. Correspondence, June 1980
  • 40.7. Correspondence, July-August 1980
  • 40.8. Correspondence, September 1980
  • 40.9. Correspondence, October 1980
  • 40.10. Correspondence, November 1980
  • 40.11. Correspondence, December 1980
  • 41.1-41.2. Correspondence with patients, etc. 1980, n.d.
  • 41.3. Correspondence, January 1981
  • 41.4. Correspondence, February-March 1981
  • 41.5. Correspondence, April 1981
  • 41.6. Correspondence, May 1981
  • 41.7. Correspondence, June 1981
  • 41.8. Correspondence, July 1981
  • 41.9. Correspondence, August 1981
  • 41.10. Correspondence, September 1981
  • 41.11. Correspondence, October 1981
  • 41.12. Correspondence, November 1981
  • 42.1. Correspondence, December 1981
  • 8.18. Correspondence re: Nguyen Be, 1981.
    See also #5.10.
  • 42.2-42.8. Correspondence with patients, etc. (primarily requests for information), 1981-1982
  • 9.1. Correspondence, 1981-1985
  • 43.1. Correspondence, January 1982
  • 43.2. Correspondence, February 1982
  • 43.3. Correspondence, March 1982
  • 43.4. Correspondence, April 1982
  • 43.5. Correspondence, May 1982
  • 43.6. Correspondence, June 1982
  • 43.7. Correspondence, July 1982
  • 43.8. Correspondence, August 1982
  • 43.9. Correspondence, September 1982
  • 43.10. Correspondence, October 1982
  • 43.11. Correspondence, 1983
  • 9.2. Correspondence re: El Salvador, 1983
  • 43.12. Correspondence, January 1984
  • 43.13. Correspondence, February 1984
  • 44.1. Correspondence, March-April 1984
  • 44.2. Correspondence, July-September 1984
  • 44.3. Correspondence, October-November 1984
  • 44.4. Correspondence, December 1984
  • 9.3. Correspondence with Dr. Henry Lynch, 1984
  • 9.4. Correspondence with Dr. Henry Lynch, 1985-1988
  • 9.5. Correspondence with Mary Rose Oakar and other members of Congress, 1983-1984; includes testimony
  • 9.6. Correspondence with Mary Rose Oakar and other members of Congress, 1985-1986; includes testimony
  • 9.7. Correspondence with Mary Rose Oakar and other members of Congress, 1987-1988, n.d.; includes testimony
  • 44.5. Correspondence, January 1985
  • 44.6. Correspondence, February 1985
  • 44.7. Correspondence, March 1985
  • 44.8. Correspondence, April 1985
  • 44.9. Correspondence, May-June 1985; includes Kushner's article, "Is Aggressive Adjuvant Chemotherapy the Halsted Radical of the '80s?" (1984)
  • 44.10. Correspondence, July 1985
  • 44.11. Correspondence, August 1985
  • 44.12. Correspondence, September 1985
  • 45.1. Correspondence, October 1985
  • 45.2. Correspondence, November 1985
  • 45.3. Correspondence, December 1985
  • 45.4-45.7. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1985
  • 45.8. Correspondence, January 1986
  • 45.9. Correspondence, February 1986
  • 45.10. Correspondence, March 1986
  • 46.1. Correspondence, April 1986
  • 46.2. Correspondence, May 1986
  • 46.3. Correspondence, June 1986
  • 46.4. Correspondence, July 1986
  • 46.5. Correspondence, August 1986
  • 46.6. Correspondence, September 1986
  • 46.7. Correspondence, October 1986
  • 46.8. Correspondence, November 1986
  • 46.9. Correspondence, December 1986; includes draft report: "Priorities and Approaches for Improving Prescription Medicine Use by Older Americans"
  • 9.8. Correspondence, 1986
  • 46.10-47.4. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1986 (5 folders)
  • 9.9. Correspondence with Dr. Ezra Greenspan, 1986
  • 9.10. Correspondence: Sears mammography project, 1986
  • 47.5. "Health [magazine] letters generated by article," 1986
  • 47.6-47.8. Mailings, "August 1986 and November 1987," 1983
  • 47.9. Mailings, "August 1986 and November 1987," 1985-1986
  • 47.10. Mailings, "August 1986 and November 1987," 1986
  • 47.11. Mailings, "Brochure marketing, November 1987," 1986
  • 47.12. Brochure orders, 1986-1987
  • 9.11. Correspondence, January 1987
  • 47.13. Correspondence, January-April 1987
  • 9.12. Correspondence, February 1987
  • 9.13. Correspondence, March 1987
  • 9.14. Correspondence, April 1987
  • 10.1. Correspondence, May 1987
  • 48.1. Correspondence, May-August 1987
  • 10.2. Correspondence, June 1987
  • 10.3. Correspondence, July 1987
  • 10.4. Correspondence, August 1987
  • 10.5. Correspondence, September 1987
  • 48.2. Correspondence, September-December 1987
  • 10.6. Correspondence, October 1987
  • 10.7. Correspondence, November 1987
  • 10.8. Correspondence, December 1987
  • 48.3-48.6. Correspondence with patients, et al., 1987
  • 48.7. "Brochure orders," 1987
  • 48.8. "Fundraising: mammography 'industry'," 1987
  • 48.9. "Fundraising: names and addresses where sent," 1987
  • 48.10. "Fundraising: responses," 1987
  • 48.11. "Fundraising: thank you letters," 1987
  • 48.12. Correspondence: "breast cancer legislation," 1987-1989
  • 48.13. Correspondence: political, 1987-1989; includes re: breast cancer political action committee, Congressional affairs and legislation
  • 10.9. Correspondence, January 1988
  • 10.10. Correspondence, February 1988
  • 11.1. Correspondence, March 1988; includes Armand Hammer
  • 11.2. Correspondence, April 1988
  • 11.3. Correspondence, May 1988
  • 11.4. Correspondence, June 1988
  • 11.5. Correspondence, July 1988; includes Mary Lasker
  • 11.6. Correspondence, August 1988
  • 11.7. Correspondence, September-November 1988
  • 49.1. Correspondence, 1988
  • 49.2-49.5. "Correspondence and patient letters," 1988
  • 11.8. Correspondence with ICI Pharmaceuticals Group and re: other businesses and screening, 1988
  • 49.6. Correspondence, January 1989
  • 49.7. Correspondence, February 1989
  • 49.8. Correspondence, March 1989
  • 49.9. Correspondence, April 1989
  • 50.1. Correspondence, May-June 1989
  • 50.2. Correspondence, July 1989
  • 50.3. Correspondence, August 1989
  • 50.4. Correspondence, September 1989
  • 50.5. Correspondence, October 1989
  • 50.6. Correspondence, November-December 1989
  • 11.9. Correspondence, 1989
  • 50.7. Brochure orders, 1992
  • 11.10. Correspondence, n.d.

• Series IV. ORGANIZATIONS, 1965-1990 (#11.11-24.9, 50.8-51.2)
  Scope and Contents: Series IV, ORGANIZATIONS, 1965-1990 (#11.11-24.9, 50.8-51.2), contains materials related to the organizations Rose Kushner worked with or founded. Included are information sheets of the Breast Cancer Advisory Center and Kushner's study of state laws on informed consent (#11.11-11.20). Correspondence with Chinese physicians, and her diary of and report on her trip to China in 1984, document an epidemic of breast cancer in that country (#12.1-12.9, 51.2). Minutes and correspondence with the Mammatech Co., the maker of a breast self-examination kit, illustrate Kushner's view that self-examination and early detection were key to prevention (#13.4-14.2). Additionally there are incorporation documents and other papers of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, which Kushner helped to found in 1986 (#14.3-15.1). Minutes, correspondence, and reports document her service on the National Cancer Advisory Board, 1980-1986. Reports and correspondence of many National Cancer Institute task forces and projects of which she was a member are arranged chronologically and include the Office of Cancer Communications (#18.3-18.6), the Organ System Program (OSP) (#18.7-19.3), the Protocol Data Query (#19.4-19.7), Low Fat Cancer Trials (#20.1-20.8), and Women's Health Trials (#20.9-21.5). Other task force papers include a study of silicone breast implants (#7.10, 12.10-13.3), and of DES (Diethylstilbestrol #23.4-24.1). This series is arranged by organization.
  • 11.11. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: information sheets, 1983-1987
  • 50.8. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: "grant proposals to National Cancer Institute and to various foundations," 1977-1985
  • 11.12. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: California, 1979-1989
  • 11.13. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: Florida, 1984, n.d.
  • 11.14. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, 1979-1989
  • 11.15. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: Maryland, 1981-1989
  • 11.16. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: Massachusetts, 1979-1987
  • 11.17. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: Michigan, 1984-1986
  • 11.18. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, 1982-1987
  • 11.19. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington, 1983-1989
  • 11.20. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: informed consent laws: general re: informed consent and breast cancer, 1979-1989
  • 50.9. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: "Public Welfare Foundation grant to BCAC," 1980-1982
  • 50.10. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: "fundraising," 1985, 1987; includes list of groups that have made contributions to BCAC
  • 50.11. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: tax materials, 1987-1988
  • 51.1. Breast Cancer Advisory Center: "DuPont grants (consulting fees) to BCAC," 1987-1988
  • 12.1. Re: China trip: China Educational Tours (CET): arrangements etc., 1983-1986
  • 12.2. Re: China trip: correspondence, 1983-March 1984: includes Armand Hammer, Chinese physicians
  • 12.3. Re: China trip: correspondence, April 1984-May 1985: includes Armand Hammer, Dr. Wu, Kushner's report
  • 12.4. Re: China trip: correspondence, June-November 1985
  • 12.5. Re: China trip: correspondence, 1986-1988
  • 12.6. Re: China trip: correspondence, n.d.
    Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #172.
  • 12.7. Re: China trip: China diary, typescript transcript, 1985
  • 51.2. Re: China trip: China diary, typescript transcript "World Health Organization sponsored trip (Rose's tapes transcribed)," 1985; includes Baltimore Sun article by Kushner: "A Ky Opponent Lives in 'Exile' in Washington," (1970)
  • 12.8. Re: China trip: printed re: Kushner and China, 1985-1987
  • 12.9. Re: China trip: articles on breast cancer in China, 1985, 1987
  • 12.10-13.3. Food and Drug Administration: Silicone Breast Implant Working Group, 1989 (5 folders).
    See also #7.10.
  • 13.4. Mammatech Corporation: correspondence, 1982-1988
  • 13.5-13.6. Mammatech Corporation: organization, 1983
  • 13.7. Mammatech Corporation: letters of inquiry, 1983, 1985
  • 13.8. Mammatech Corporation: board minutes, 1983-1984, 1988
  • 13.9. Mammatech Corporation: questionnaire, 1984
  • 13.10. Mammatech Corporation: sales materials, 1983
  • 14.1. Mammatech Corporation: mostly printed, 1984-1986
  • 14.2. Mammatech Corporation: other printed re: breast self-examination, 1977-1985
  • 14.3. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: incorporation documents, bylaws, 1986-1987
  • 14.4. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: invitations to serve on board, 1986-1987
  • 14.5. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: minutes, 1986
  • 14.6. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: questionnaire, analysis, 1986, 1989
  • 14.7. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: correspondence, 1986
  • 14.8. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: correspondence, 1987
  • 14.9. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: correspondence, 1988-1989
  • 14.10. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: newsletter, clippings, 1986-1989
  • 14.11. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: financial reports, 1987-1988
  • 14.12-14.13. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: mailing lists, 1981-1989, n.d.
  • 14.14. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: lists, 1987-1989
  • 15.1. National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations: working lists, 1986-1989
  • 15.2. National Cancer Advisory Board: "memorabilia" [for memoir?], 1979-1987
  • 15.3. National Cancer Advisory Board: Linus Pauling's proposals to National Cancer Institute, 1979-1980
  • 15.4. National Cancer Advisory Board: correspondence, minutes, 1980
  • 15.5. National Cancer Advisory Board: "Cancer Control Program," report by Kushner: drafts and correspondence, 1980
  • 15.6. National Cancer Advisory Board: printed and other background for report, 1975-1983
  • 15.7. National Cancer Advisory Board: minutes, correspondence, clippings, 1981
  • 15.8. National Cancer Advisory Board, January-June 1982
  • 16.1. National Cancer Advisory Board, August-December 1982
  • 16.2. National Cancer Advisory Board, January 1983
  • 16.3. National Cancer Advisory Board, February-August 1983
  • 16.4. National Cancer Advisory Board, September-December 1983
  • 16.5. National Cancer Advisory Board, October: 1983 budget
  • 16.6. National Cancer Advisory Board: correspondence and draft re: adjuvant chemotherapy, 1984.
    See also #4.1-4.4, 21.6-22.2.
  • 16.7. National Cancer Advisory Board: agendas, minutes, 1984
  • 16.8. National Cancer Advisory Board: budget, 1984
  • 17.1. National Cancer Advisory Board: annual report, 1984
  • 17.2-17.3. National Cancer Advisory Board: agendas, minutes, 1985
  • 17.4. National Cancer Advisory Board: reports, proposals for review, correspondence, 1985
  • 17.5. National Cancer Advisory Board: correspondence with Linus Pauling re: Vitamin C, 1985
  • 17.6. National Cancer Advisory Board: "politics and farewell correspondence," 1986-1987
  • 17.7. National Cancer Advisory Board, 1987
  • 17.8. National Cancer Advisory Board: NCI and NIH meetings, 1988-1989
  • 17.9. National Cancer Advisory Board: correspondence re: reappointment, 1989
  • 17.10. National Cancer Advisory Board: finances: personal payments, 1980-1986
  • 17.11-18.1. National Cancer Advisory Board: finances: travel reimbursements, 1981-1986 (3 folders)
  • 18.2. National Cancer Advisory Board: History of Cancer Centers programs, 1965-1989
  • 18.3. National Cancer Institute projects: Office of Cancer Communications: Kushner's reviews and articles: correspondence, typescript drafts, 1975-1979
  • 18.4. National Cancer Institute projects: Office of Cancer Communications: Kushner's reviews and articles: reviews, 1979
  • 18.5. National Cancer Institute projects: Office of Cancer Communications: Kushner's reviews and articles: "Reconstructive Mammoplasty": correspondence and typescript drafts, 1979.
  • 18.6. National Cancer Institute projects: Office of Cancer Communications: Kushner's reviews and articles: correspondence, 1979-1982
  • 18.7. National Cancer Institute projects: Organ System Program: Breast Cancer Working Group: correspondence, minutes, 1980-1981 and earlier
  • 18.8. National Cancer Institute projects: Organ System Program: Breast Cancer Working Group, 1982
  • 18.9-18.10. National Cancer Institute projects: Organ System Program: Breast Cancer Working Group, 1983
  • 19.1. National Cancer Institute projects: Organ System Program: Breast Cancer Working Group, 1984
  • 19.2. National Cancer Institute projects: Organ System Program: Breast Cancer Working Group, 1985-1986
  • 19.3. National Cancer Institute projects: Organ System Program: Breast Cancer Working Group, 1987-1988, 1989, n.d.
  • 19.4. National Cancer Institute projects: Protocol Data Query (PDQ), 1982-1983
  • 19.5. National Cancer Institute projects: Protocol Data Query (PDQ), 1984
  • 19.6. National Cancer Institute projects: Protocol Data Query (PDQ), 1985
  • 19.7. National Cancer Institute projects: Protocol Data Query (PDQ), 1987
  • 20.1. National Cancer Institute projects: Low Fat Cancer Trials, 1982-1983: notes, partial transcript
  • 20.2. National Cancer Institute projects: Low Fat Cancer Trials, 1984: reviews
  • 20.3. National Cancer Institute projects: Low Fat Cancer Trials, 1985
  • 20.4. National Cancer Institute projects: Low Fat Cancer Trials, 1986
  • 20.5. National Cancer Institute projects: Low Fat Cancer Trials, February-May 1987
  • 20.6. National Cancer Institute projects: Low Fat Cancer Trials, July 1987-1988
  • 20.7-20.8. National Cancer Institute projects: Low Fat Cancer Trials: printed re: cancer and diet, 1982-1987
  • 20.9. National Cancer Institute projects: Women's Health Trials, 1985-1986
  • 20.10. National Cancer Institute projects: Women's Health Trials: reviews, 1986
  • 21.1. National Cancer Institute projects: Women's Health Trials: correspondence, 1986
  • 21.2. National Cancer Institute projects: Women's Health Trials, 1987
  • 21.3. National Cancer Institute projects: Women's Health Trials: minutes, 1987-1988, printed
  • 21.4v. National Cancer Institute projects: Women's Health Trials: participant's manual, 1987
  • 21.5. National Cancer Institute projects: Women's Health Trials: printed re: trial, 1986-1988
  • 21.6-21.7. National Cancer Institute projects: adjuvant chemotherapy: printed, 1979-1986
  • 22.1. National Cancer Institute projects: adjuvant chemotherapy, 1987-1990
  • 22.2. National Cancer Institute projects: adjuvant chemotherapy, 1988
  • 22.3. National Cancer Institute projects: tumor markers: includes conference, 1988-1989
  • 22.4. National Cancer Institute projects: tumor markers: printed materials; includes conference, 1983-1989
  • 22.5. National Cancer Institute projects: breast cancer trials for laser surgery, 1989
  • 22.6. National Cancer Institute projects: Lasagna Committee: National Committee to Review Current Procedures and Approval of New Drugs for Cancer and AIDS, 1989: includes correspondence, agendas, and Kushner's paper
  • 22.7-22.8. National Cancer Institute projects: Lasagna Committee: National Committee to Review Current Procedures and Approval of New Drugs for Cancer and AIDS: printed background, 1982-1989
  • 23.1-23.3. National Cancer Institute projects: printed material, 1985-1989
  • 23.4. United States Department of Health and Human Services: DES (Diethylstilbestrol) Task Force: questionnaire and responses, 1981-1987
  • 23.5. United States Department of Health and Human Services: DES (Diethylstilbestrol) Task Force: lawsuit, 1984-1990
  • 23.6. United States Department of Health and Human Services: DES (Diethylstilbestrol) Task Force: correspondence, including Mary Rose Oakar, Dr. Arthur Herbst, and reports, 1985-1989
  • 23.7. United States Department of Health and Human Services: DES (Diethylstilbestrol) Task Force: printed, 1975-1985
  • 23.8-24.1. United States Department of Health and Human Services: DES (Diethylstilbestrol) Task Force: reports, 1981-1988 (2 folders)
  • 24.2. Notes and printed re: "The Future" (of cancer treatments, chemotherapy etc.), 1975-1987
  • 24.3-24.6. Printed re: breast cancer, 1983-1989
  • 24.7-24.8. Printed: chemotherapy treatment for cancer, 1982-1984
  • 24.9. Printed: Armand Hammer and cancer, 1988

• Series V. PHOTOGRAPHS, 1960-1985, n.d. (#PD.1-PD.2, #81, #172)
  Scope and Contents: Series V, PHOTOGRAPHS, 1960-1985, n.d. (#PD.1-PD.2, #81, #172) includes publicity photographs of Rose Kushner; a photograph of Rose and Harvey Kushner with others in Vietnam(?); Rose Kushner showing a model house to an unidentified man at McCall's Third National Conference on Better Living (#81); and flow charts showing the process of discovering, diagnosing and treating breast cancer (#81). Photograph folders from the original processed collections have retained their original folder numbering (#81, 172). The photographs in this collection are or will be digitized and available online. This series is arranged chronologically, beginning with undated folders.
  • PD.1. Photographs of Rose Kushner, n.d.; includes portraits, speaking engagements (11 photographs)
  • 81. Conference papers, programs: photographs removed from #3.11, #6.4, 1960, 1982 (3 photographs)
  • PD.2. Photograph removed from #30.12, 1973, n.d.; image includes Harvey and Rose Kushner (1 photograph)
  • 172. China trip: photograph of Kushner with Chinese friends (removed from #12.6), 1985 (1 photograph)

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