Phase 1 trials - changing the Gold standard !

http://www.forbes.com/sites/elaineschattner/2016/06/02/the-emerging-benefit-of-personalized-phase-1-clinical-trials-for-evaluating-targeted-oncology-drugs/#4806e25b7ed3

What's Hot at ASCO .. according to Medscape - but it seems to be Immunotherapy ..

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/863994

TNM- staging in Melanoma

As upcoming news might refer to specific substages of Melanoma, here a good overview from medscape for reference:

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2007147-overview

T refers to the tumour
N refers to (lymph) nodes
M refers to metastasis

Summary of interesting Melanoma updates to come this ASCO by J. Weber

A good overview of what type of news to expect this ASCO in Melanoma, summarised by J. Weber-

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/864008


At lot are updates of earlier trials, but relevant insights into higher response rates or side effects, so definitely worth following up!

Virtual meeting- ASCO- part of it for free

Unfortunately not all of it, but apparently some free samples of ASCO talks will be available to watch online! See link below for more information

bit.ly/1TD6nrL 

ASCO featured voices- #ASCO2016 and @ASCO2016

ASCO 2016 will be covered on social media by 21 Featured Voices tweeting under #ASCO2016.

A pity that also this year- yet again- there is not a single patient voice among them! 

The text from ASCO connection:

#ASCO16: Annual Meeting on Social Media

Apr 28, 2016 12:00 AM

Keep up with the latest information from the Annual Meeting and
join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #ASCO16.
Add your Twitter handle to your badge when registering to
make it easy for fellow attendees to connect with you
(visit am.asco.org and select “Registration” for instructions).

Meet your social media connections in real life
at the 2016 Annual Meeting Tweet Up on
Saturday, June 4, at 5:45 PM CST (RSVP online).
Follow @ASCO for official news and updates.

In case it doesn't clash with a Melanoma session- in which case we would
be tweeting Melanoma news- might be a good idea to attend?

 

ASCO abstracts are out

The ASCO abstracts are out and can be searched under the iPlanner here: 

https://iplanner.asco.org/am2016/#/

So like every year- please post for you relevant abstracts in reply here under the same thread and we do our best to cover them from Chicago!

This time, there will be more of us, so we will be able to report in more detail- now up to you!