Until the mid-20th century, doctors could do little for children in cancer wards except try to comfort them. “There wasn’t much else you could do but care,” Audrey Evans recalled of the era when she began studying for a career as a pediatric oncologist.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Audrey Evans, pioneering researcher of childhood cancer, dies at 97
In 1974, she co-founded the first Ronald McDonald House, in Philadelphia, to provide affordable lodging for families of gravely ill children
By Margaret Foster
Updated September 29, 2022 at 7:43 p.m. EDT|Published September 29, 2022 at 5:01 p.m. EDT