 | Ms Hubbard was an honors graduate of the University of Connecticut with a degree in nursing, and began her career in the late 1960s as a cancer-unit nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 1979, she became an oncology research nurse at the NIH, and later served as chief of NCI’s Scientific Information Branch in the division of Cancer Treatment. Ms Hubbard was instrumental in creating NCI’s PDQ cancer information database and the CancerNet Website, which was later integrated into the NCI website cancer.gov. She received many awards and she authored or contributed to more than 170 articles in medical journals and textbooks.
Ms Hubbard died on 11 December 2006.
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