ASCO 2023 läuft

Derzeit läuft der jährliche, weltgrößte Krebskongress vom 2.-6.6. in Chicago:

Program Guide – ASCO Meeting Program Guide

Hier eine gute Einführung der aktuellen Trends (von globeecho.com):

"Sunday, June 4, the convention center which borders Lake Michigan, in Chicago (Illinois), was in turmoil. Thousands of women and men, medical oncologists, researchers and employees of pharmaceutical laboratories, walked the corridors of this sprawling building, looking for a presentation not to be missed, a meeting to follow, a stand at to visit.

With 43,000 participants, the annual high mass of cancerology, the congress of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), had returned to the attendance levels of previous years – those before the health crisis.

What’s new this year in terms of cancer treatment? Small streams make great rivers: the 2023 edition of the ASCO perfectly illustrates the adage. No major revolution, but a sum of “progress in small steps” which reinforces the interest of two booming strategies. On the one hand, it involves administering innovative treatments to patients suffering from early cancers that are still localized (not metastasized). On the other hand, to personalize the therapies according to the “tumor profile” of each patient (for example, their molecular abnormalities).

Demonstration, in Chicago, with the second most frequent cancer in the world, that of the lung. That is 2.21 million new cases and 1.80 million deaths each year on the planet, ..."