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 18, 2013
To help keep its members and the cancer community apprised and educated on the issue of payment reform, ASCO has developed a payment reform webpage and issued an ASCO in Action educational series. This four-part series is designed to help ASCO members better understand the complex issue of physician payment reform:
Apr 18, 2013
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a final rule implementing Section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act (the “National Physician Payment Transparency Program: Open Payments”).
Apr 17, 2013
In February and March, ASCO co-hosted several workshops with the FDA to discuss important topics in clinical trials:
Apr 17, 2013
As the National Cancer Institute (NCI) finalizes the restructuring of its Cooperative Group clinical trials system, budget cuts threaten the progress made and important revitalization efforts still needed, according to speakers at a February 2013 workshop hosted by ASCO and the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) National Cancer Policy Forum.
Apr 16, 2013
This spring, ASCO launched its Diversity Mentoring Program, a cornerstone piece of the ASCO Diversity in Oncology Initiative, which is aimed at combatting the lack of workforce diversity in oncology.
Apr 04, 2013
Feb 27, 2013
As the field of thoracic oncology becomes increasingly more complex, multidisciplinary care involving the medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, and thoracic surgeon has become the rule, not the exception. Patients are no longer seeing just one physician for his or her cancer and thus forums like these are of paramount interest in educating...
Feb 26, 2013
Guides to Cancer The wealth of information found in these detailed guides to 122 types of cancer make this section of the website the most popular (cancer.net/cancer). Recently, Cancer.Net users have been interested in learning more about thyroid cancer, adrenal gland tumor, sarcoma, and...
Feb 26, 2013
Courses on Individual Oncology Literature Reviews Now Available for Purchase Much in the same vein that oncology care providers can deliver the best treatment to patients through personalized medicine, users of ASCO University® can optimize their learning experience by selecting resources that fit their own e