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The January 2009 ASCO News & Forum, the most recent issue of the Society’s quarterly membership magazine, is now available for online viewing, and includes the first article of a new membership benefits series.
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Abstracts from the 2009 Gastrointestinal Cancers (GI) Symposium are now available for free on ASCO.org, in addition to Virtual Meeting and podcast presentations, now available through a subscription purchase.
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ASCO along with others in the cancer community sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging them to include legislative language in the economic stimulus package that would exclude prompt pay discounts from the ASP methodology for Medicare Part B drugs. Also, in response to an application from ASCO, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology issued a call for public comment on a roadmap for expansion of its HIT certification programs, including new oncology programs.
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Alexandria, Va. –National Cancer Prevention Month kicks off February 1, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is highlighting the oncologist’s role in cancer prevention and in assessing a person’s risk of getting cancer in a new policy statement published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) this month.
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In this New Digest you will find a summary of a study published online January 26, 2009 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, showing no survival difference between premenopausal women with early-stage endometrial cancer whose ovaries were left intact during cancer surgery compared with those whose ovaries were surgically removed.
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