John “Drew” Ridge, MD, PhD, Secretary Quynh-Thu Le, MD, Treasurer The American Radium Society is a medical association devoted to the study and treatment of cancer.

The society's mission was expanded in 1950 to include "the treatment of neoplastic and allied diseases and the study and application of ionizing radiation.

The first Janeway Lecture, "Early Experience in Radium Therapy", was given by the pathologist James Ewing.

The 2014 Janeway Lecturer was Murray F. Brennan of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

[3] The society's first president was the Canadian physician W. H. B. Aikins, known as the founder of radiotherapy in Canada.