I am way behind

Yesterday was National Cancer Survivors Day. How did I miss it? I should get to celebrate twice or something. But I wish it didn't have the S word in the title. How about National People Living With Cancer Day?

Also, this weekend was the ASCO conference. I usually read what is announced each day and now have to catch up.

Here are a few details so far:

• Extending Tamoxifen to ten years from five years reduces risk of reccurence by 15%
• Sorafenib Shows Benefit in Radioactive Iodine-Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
• Surveillance in Breast Cancer Survivors: First Do No Harm - which discusses over testing after treatment ends.
  
• Innovations in Breast Cancer Drug Development: The Neoadjuvant Breast Cancer Workshop 

There is lots more to read about and I'm sure there will be some big announcements. I have gotten through a few of the sessions so far. The two sources to read are:

• First the news summaries listed here: http://chicago2013.asco.org/daily-news/latest?field_cancer_topics_tid=All&field_daily_news_article_categor_tid=All
• Next read the ASCO Daily News which are at the very bottom left of this page: http://chicago2013.asco.org/daily-news

So I will start reading them myself and see what I think about them. I am sure there will be many exciting new topics discussed.