ASCO & Member News
Find highlights of ASCO initiatives, including news related to oncology research and clinical practice, policy and advocacy, education, and meetings, and updates on ASCO’s patient-centered site, Cancer.Net, and Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation.
Member News provides updates on ASCO member career news, awards, and recognitions, as well as profiles of ASCO volunteer leaders. If you have news you would like to share, please contact ascoconnection@asco.org.
Apr 28, 2014
"JCO Exclusive Coverage" is a new series of articles on ASCO.org designed to provide quick insight and additional author perspectives on select studies recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Apr 28, 2014
The May issue of the Journal of Oncology Practice (JOP) spotlights the second annual Quality Care Symposium, which took place on November 1-2, 2013, in San Diego, California. The issue provides a comprehensive review of the Symposium's proceedings, with perspective pieces covering each of the six General Sessions. Topics include...
Apr 28, 2014
The popular Art of Oncology (AOO) section of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) brings a human perspective to the art and science of practicing oncology. Lidia Schapira, MD, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, became the Art of Oncology Editor in November 2013, following in the...
Apr 26, 2014
In 2008, the Conquer Cancer Foundation recognized that a changing funding landscape would demand increased investment in the future, and the Mission Endowment was born.
Apr 25, 2014
Over the past decade, ASCO has launched multiple initiatives on cancer genetics that complement the rapid progress in the field. These initiatives have resulted in educational offerings and policy recommendations that have improved both preventive and therapeutic recommendations and options for patients with cancer and their families at hereditary...
Apr 24, 2014
The LUNGevity Foundation announced that Julie Brahmer, MD, Associate Professor of Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, joined their Scientific Advisory Board.
Kinex Pharmaceuticals has named Wing-Kai Chan, MD, as Head of Clinical Operations-Asia/Pacific.
Apr 22, 2014
Writing a poem: Seamus Heaney compared it to digging, Emily Dickinson to telling a slanted truth. For Frank L. Meyskens, Jr., MD, writing a poem “is like breathing”—not in ease, but in fundamental necessity. In spare, concise, deeply emotional verse, Dr. Meyskens, founding Director (Emeritus) of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and a...
Apr 10, 2014
ASCO’s commitment to balance, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its activities has been reflected in its responsible management of financial interactions with for-profit health care companies that could create real or perceived conflicts of interest. To help members and the Society continue to manage these interactions appropriately,...
Mar 20, 2014
On January 10, 2014, the oncology community lost Donald L. Morton, MD, an excellent physician, surgeon, and scientist. At the time of his death, Dr. Morton was the Chief of the Melanoma Program at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California, an institution that he helped found.
Mar 19, 2014
Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD, an ASCO Board of Directors member and a Professor in the Department of Leukemia at The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, was selected for a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.’s “National Physician of the Year Awards.” Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. identifies top doctors with the...