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Live Remote Broadcast from the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
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This Sunday in
The Group Room - in collaboration with Cancer.net, ASCO's patient-oriented website, providing oncologist-vetted cancer information to help individuals make informed health care decisions - Vital Options presents its annual live broadcast from the floor of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Meeting in Orlando, Florida. This year's show will also be videocast.
The annual ASCO meeting is the world
premier scientific event for oncology professionals. More than 30,000 cancer specialists from
around the world are expected to gather to discuss the latest advances in
cancer care, treatment, prevention and survivorship. This year's theme is "Personalizing Cancer Care", a practice focusing on caring
for the individual - not just treating the disease - through the entire
spectrum of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to survivorship and end of
life care.
Selma R. Schimmel, CEO & Founder of
Vital Options International, will be joined by a panel of physicians addressing four areas of important news
that will be discussed at the meeting.
Hour 1
Personalized Cancer Care:
Sonali M. Smith, MD
Associate
Professor, Section of Hematology/Oncology and Associate Director, Lymphoma
Program at The University of Chicago; Member of the ASCO Cancer Communications
Committee
Women's
Cancers - Pink With a Twist:
Julie R Gralow, MD
Director, Breast Medical Oncology Group and Associate Professor of Medical
Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Associate Member, Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Clinical Division, Vice-Chair of the
Southwest Oncology Group's Breast Cancer Committee, Seattle, WA; Immediate
Past-Chair of the ASCO Cancer Communications Committee
Hour 2
Gastrointestinal Cancers:
Nicholas J. Petrelli,
MD
Medical Director, Helen F.
Graham Cancer Center, Wilmington, DE;
Chair of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project,
Colorectal Committee; Past President of the Society of Surgical Oncology;
Chair-Elect of the ASCO Cancer Communications Committee
Lung
Cancer:
Alan B. Sandler,
MD
Professor of Medicine; Division
Chief, Hematology & Medical Oncology, DeArmond Chair, Clinical Cancer
Research Oregon Health & Science University
 This week's Advocacy in Action organization of the week is ASCO'spatient-oriented
website, Cancer.Net, providing oncologist-vetted cancer information to help individuals
make informed health care decisions.Find out more at www.cancer.net.
This special broadcast is made possible with support from Genentech BioOncology, GlaxoSmithKline Oncology, and Lilly Oncology. The live videocast is made possible by Merck Oncology.
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Hormone
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