As we enter a new year, the time is ripe to remember the goals of The ASCO Post (TAP) and consider how we've been doing so far. The ASCO Post was launched last June as a newspaper for the oncology community, covering broad areas of multidisciplinary cancer care with thoughtful opinion pieces fro...

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Medicare pays physicians according to a fee schedule established by Congress. This year, Medicare will pay the nation's 850,000 physicians a total of $92 billion, or roughly $108,000 per physician. From this payment, physicians pay their nurses and office staff, office expenses, patient record a...

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The 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting may seem like history, but the studies and data presented in Chicago will remain in the forefront of oncology and hematology news in the weeks and months to come. In this second issue of The ASCO Post (TAP), I call your attention to the following important oncology-h...

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It has been 5 years since ASCO has been part of a new publication, the last being the Journal of Oncology Practice (JOP). As the ASCO Board and leadership evaluated the publication mix we recognized there was a gap that needed to be filled. The Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), now 25 years ol...

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Over the years I have become increasingly proud of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. I believe that ASCO is unique among specialty societies-at least in the various disciplines of oncology and hematology. Our Society is amazingly democratic (ie, with an independent nominating process an...

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