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News for Patients from ASCO's Meet the Expert Event
ASCO's Meet the Expert Events are designed to provide health and medical reporters with authoritative, up-to-date information on various cancer topics and issues.
2006 Meet the Expert: Personalized Cancer Medicine: Translating Breakthroughs in Biology into Better Treatment for Patients
February 21, 2007
Personalized cancer medicine is the use of information about an individual person and an individual cancer to provide specific strategies to find, treat, and prevent cancer. It includes the genetic characteristics of the cancer and the patient's overall health, genetic factors, and treatment preferences. This issue of Cancer Advances explains personalized cancer medicine and related concepts, such as genetics and cancer, individualized cancer treatment, and targeted treatment. The information in this publication was presented at an ASCO Meet the Expert event in New York City in December 2006.
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2005 Meet the Expert: Targeted Therapies—The Next Generation
April 3, 2006
The information in this publication was presented at an ASCO Meet the Experts session in New York City in December 2005. The topic of the event was targeted therapies, and included many nationally recognized cancer experts.
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2004 Meet the Expert: Cancer Survivorship—Increasing Survival, Improving Lives
March 30, 2005
On Thursday, December 2, 2004, ASCO hosted its annual Meet the Experts event for the media at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. The topic of the event was cancer survivorship, and the featured panelists included nationally-recognized cancer experts, survivors, and advocates including special guest Geraldine Ferraro.
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2003 Meet the Expert: The Virus-Cancer Link: Examining the Role of Viruses in the Development of Cancer
September 27, 2004
The information contained in this publication was presented at an ASCO Meet the Experts session held in New York City in December 2003. This event covered information about the incidence, risk, infection process, prevention, screening, and treatment of several cancers that are linked to viruses or bacteria.
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2003 Meet the Expert: Getting Ahead of the Curve: New Strategies in Cancer Prevention and Screening
September 12, 2003
On Monday, April 14, 2003, at the Millenium Hotel in New York City, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) hosted a panel of leading cancer experts to explore current and new approaches to prevention and screening. The program focused on current trends and advances being made in lung, colorectal, breast, and gynecologic cancers.
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2002 Meet the Expert: Unlocking Cancer's Secrets: New Pathways to Targeted Treatments
July 7, 2003
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at the Millenium Hotel in New York City, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) hosted a panel of leading experts in cancer and molecular oncology to explore the ways in which new molecular pathways are leading the field of clinical oncology. The program focused on the practical applications of molecular oncology and the resulting paradigm shift toward genetically-targeted treatments.
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2001 Meet the Expert: The Human Genome and Its Implications for Cancer
November 1, 2001
Highlights from ASCO's event, "The Human Genome Project and Its Implications for Cancer." The session, which included some of the country's leading experts in cancer genetics, covered topics ranging from how knowledge of the human genome is changing the scope of cancer care and research to ethical, legal and social implications surrounding this issue.
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