American Society Of Clinical Oncology

In this episode of Meeting Mic, we continue to bring you pearls and perspectives from the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting with a focus on leukemia.

During his educational progression from an intern at Stanford University’s ICU to that unit’s senior resident, Tyler Paul Johnson, MD, learned to take an “impenetrable forest of data” and reduce it to its simplest form.

CHICAGO — During her fellowship as a palliative care physician, Sunita Puri, MD, met a patient who taught her that healing is possible even when cure is not.

During her presentation as part of an ASCO education session on advocacy, Jasmine Kamboj, MD, MBBS, described the “exhilarating” feeling she had when she first spoke at an advocacy summit meeting.

When Robert A. Winn, MD, learned he’d receive the Allen Lichter Visionary Leader Award at this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting, he reacted in the form of a question: “What just happened?”

According to Ashley L. Sumrall, MD, there’s not a great deal of difference between a practicing oncologist and a physician advocate.

Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, feels honored to receive this year’s ASCO Humanitarian Award.

Richard Gorlick, MD, received this year’s ASCO Pediatric Oncology Award, which recognizes an individual who made outstanding contributions to the field.

CHICAGO — A front-line treatment regimen including lifileucel and pembrolizumab produced ongoing durable responses in some patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma, according to findings presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

CHICAGO — ASCO and American Cancer Society will collaborate to make it easier for patients and their caregivers to find credible cancer information online.