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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Merit Awards.
These distinguished awards support oncology trainees who are first authors on abstracts selected for presentation at the ASCO Annual Meeting. This year, Conquer Cancer will recognize 164 recipients with Merit Awards. These oncology professionals are recognized for their respective field and research advancements within the cancer care community.
Journalist Craig Melvin and Conquer Cancer researcher Kimmie Ng, MD, MPH, discuss the troubling increase of young-onset colorectal cancer and advocate for screening and awareness.
When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released its draft guidance to lower the colon cancer screening age from 50 to 45 in November 2020, Craig Melvin was on the story.
Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, is celebrating the life of Marc Citron, MD. Dr. Citron was a research pioneer and Conquer Cancer donor, who died February 25, 2020, from recurrent glioblastoma. He was 72.
“Mark was a caring colleague, devoted clinician, collaborative researcher, and career-long ASCO member who made you feel better whenever you spoke with him,” said Clifford A. Hudis, MD, FACP, FASCO, ASCO CEO, and executive vice chair, Conquer Cancer Board of Directors. “He was thoughtful, considerate, and, most of all, obsessively devoted to the well-being of his patients.”
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center published a study in Nature Medicine showing promising results for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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