Excitement at ASCO
Each year, around this time, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, (aka ASCO,) holds their annual meeting. It is at this conference that great minds in clinical oncology bring the latest data and information they have gathered from their research and present it to other oncology care providers, and the rest of the world. I don't know if it's always held in Chicago, but last year, this year and next year, have been, and will be, in our Windy City. The 2015 conference was May 29th-June 2nd. Although I knew about the 2014 ASCO meeting last year, I didn't know that non-providers or non-clinical researchers could attend. A few lung cancer ninjas that I know went last year and reported back to us on medications that were either newly available or in the pipeline, and other breaking news. I wanted to attend this year, but Wynn and I were invited to a wedding, so we wer...