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Two studies recently presented at ASCO’s Annual Meeting have been an ongoing topic of discussion and debate for those of us who take care of women with ovarian cancer and those in the field of gynecologic oncology. The first research study of note is the phase III Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG...
I had been a practicing surgeon for several years before I returned to graduate school to study epidemiology. As one of the few Africans in my class, most people assumed that my area of study interest was HIV/AIDS given its high prevalence in Africa, controversy in the public health world about the...
Most scientists who are honest about their work realize that they are wrong the majority of their scientific careers. Wrong in that science in general (and medical science in particular) is full of blind alleys that lead nowhere but consume years of one’s time. Wrong in that we may measure that...
In my last blog post, I discussed some of the science at this year’s meeting. In this posting, I’ll spend a few words on policy issues.I had the opportunity to meet with ASCO members from around the globe and was once again impressed with the diversity of our society. I heard the concerns of...
I’ve just returned from the 2010 ASCO meeting, where I underwent a transition in job titles from President-Elect to President of our society. I had a fascinating meeting, and there are several topics arising from the meeting that I will cover in this and future blogs. As a breast cancer specialist...
Although Twitter is not my forte, trying to write some impressions in a few more words is within my abilities. I am currently sitting in the cavernous lecture hall listening to Dan VonHoff's lecture and just finished hearing Doug Blayney's Presidential Address. The challenges before us as...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), part of the US. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently published an interesting report entitled...
I am leading a Meet the Professor session at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago next week. The title of my talk is Electronic/Digital Resources in Oncology: Value vs. Distraction. It is Sunday, June 6, Room E451b, 11:30 am – 12:45 pm...
I’ve made community/connectivity/communications (different words circling around a common theme) one focus of my tenure as President of ASCO. ASCO is a large organization, with a diverse membership, and that membership has many needs and interests. These needs and interests may or may not intersect...
Welcome to the launch of ASCOconnection.org. I hope it will truly be a place for healthy member dialogue and debate. This new site is the online companion to ASCO’s membership magazine, formerly known as ASCO News & Forum, which will relaunch this July with a new design and new name, ASCO...
With the launch of ASCO Connection and this blog, “ASCO Online” enters yet another phase of its remarkable evolution. The beginnings of ASCO’s web presence occurred shortly after Al Gore invented the World Wide Web (or maybe it was the Internet, I can’t remember for sure). The first example of a...
An important paper was published online this week in the journal Pediatrics demonstrating for the first time that there was a decrease in hospital-wide mortality after the implementation of a commercial computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system. The research took place at Stanford at the...
It seems like I've participated in every facet of the "ASCO guideline" process. During the past three years of being part of the HSC (now CPG) committee, I have been amazed to witness how complex and detailed developing a guideline can become. The manuscripts are reviewed at several levels and...
I ran across a post on a healthcare blog that I would encourage folk to read. Jann Sidorov writes about the predicted death of small practices. I love his analogy to an...
John Cox invited me to his Texas Oncology Practice at the Methodist Charlton Cancer Center in Dallas, to talk about multidisciplinary breast cancer clinics. After lunch, which was attended by most of the practice’s...
An article by Schiff and Bates, writing in the March 25th New England Journal of Medicine, here caught my attention.
I arranged to spend last Thursday afternoon with Peter Yu, at his El Camino Real office of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF). PAMF has largely implemented EPIC as their EHR, and as Peter and I had an ASCO-related conference call scheduled, I was going to take the call with him and observe his...
I finally got around to watching this video, and I think you will enjoy it. It is from the...

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