Korean J Head Neck Oncol.  2019 Nov;35(2):1-10. 10.21593/kjhno/2019.35.2.1.

Highlights for the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting

• Lee YG

• KMID: 2469228
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.21593/kjhno/2019.35.2.1

Abstract

The 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, which took place May 31-June 4 in Chicago, drew more than 32,000 oncology specialists from around the world. The theme of 2019 ASCO conference was "Caring for Every Patient, Learning from Every Patient". Among the topics of interest covered were new approaches to surmount limited access to cancer care and the latest advances in targeted therapies for pancreatic, prostate cancers and soft tissue sarcomas. In the field of head and neck cancer, 8 oral abstracts and 75 poster abstracts were presented at this meeting. In this review, we are going to summarize the eight studies that have been presented orally. The topics are recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma for two abstracts (#6000, #6002), salivary duct carcinoma for one abstract (#6001), locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma for two abstracts (#6003, #6004), oropharyngeal carcinoma for two abstracts (#6006, #6008), and oral cavity cancer for one abstract (#6007).

Keyword

Highlight; 2019; American Society of Clinical Oncology; Head and neck cancer

MeSH Terms

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Head
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Humans
Learning
Medical Oncology*
Mouth
Neck
Prostatic Neoplasms
Salivary Ducts
Sarcoma
Specialization