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Showing posts with label ASCO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ASCO. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2012
American Society of Clinical Oncology - ASCO - ACT Network
Welcome to ASCO's ACT Network
Legislative Alerts and Updates
- Take Action
Contact Your Representative to Support Written Care Plans!
Bill Calling for Written Care Plans for Cancer Patients Introduced - Take Action
Take Action to Address Drug Shortages!
Contact Your Representative to Support This Legislation!
New ASCO analysis on Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act
| New ASCO analysis on Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act |
| 16 Feb 2012 |
| A new ASCO issue brief examines the Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act, introduced in December 2011 by Representatives Lois Capps (D-Calif.) and Charles Boustany (R-La). The issue brief examines the Act’s potential to improve survivorship care throughout the cancer care continuum by supporting coverage of comprehensive cancer care planning, establishing grant programs to increase provider education of palliative care and symptom management, and investing in survivorship-related research. ASCO supports the CCIA, along with 38 National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centers across the country and 23 cancer advocacy organizations. To voice support for H.R. 3705 and learn about other ASCO policy initiatives, please visit ASCO’s ACT Network at http://capwiz.com/asco/home/. |
Saturday, February 11, 2012
the Oncologist: Relentless Progress: ASCO Responds
Blogger's Note: the 'timeline' section includes stats on ovarian cancer
Relentless Progress: ASCO Responds
ALLEN S. LICHTER
American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Dr. Beatty’s thoughtful piece [1] brings up a number of important
points. Progress against cancer has been relentless. To
summarize these advances, the American Society of Clinical
Oncology (ASCO) has created a website:
CancerProgress.net.http://www.cancerprogress.net/
It’s a summary of important milestones in each cancer and
each treatment modality, concentrating on the 40 years since
the signing of the National Cancer Act in 1971......
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