​ACS has significant presence at top oncology conference.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, running June 2 – 6, in Chicago, IL, brings together more than 40,000 oncology professionals from around the world. ACS will use the global event as an opportunity to drive awareness of the organization and our mission across the cancer continuum with key players in the cancer ecosystem – researchers, health care providers, industry leaders, patient advocacy groups, and more.

The theme for the 2023 annual meeting is: Partnering with Patients: The Cornerstone of Cancer Care and Research. 

How will ACS be involved? 

ACS will have a multi-faceted, targeted presence at ASCO, focused in several areas: 

• A booth in the ASCO exhibition hall will serve as a central hub for the ACS presence at the meeting. This space will house ACS materials and be a resource for event attendees who would like to learn more about the organization. It will target cancer care clinicians, faculty and other research professionals, and patient advocacy groups. Pictured here is last year's ASCO exhibit booth. This year's booth will be significantly larger, featuring ACS materials and showcasing ACS experts during the event 
• ACS leaders from across the organization will attend dozens of carefully planned partner meetings during ASCO.
• Discovery Pillar team members will attend the meeting, delivering and attending presentations.

At the exhibit booth, ACS will highlight four themes to demonstrate how we are a key partner to professionals and organizations in the cancer community. The booth will allow conference attendees a chance to “meet the expert” focused on these themes in brief sessions. Themes include: 

• Advancing research and fueling therapy development
• Training and workforce development
• Access to care and patient support
• Health equity

A spotlight on discovery

This year’s scientific program at ASCO will feature more than 2,900 abstracts complementing the meeting’s theme of partnering with patients. Included in those are several ACS team members giving oral presentations and poster presentations on their research. Read more about each below. 

Oral presentations

• Dr. Alpa Patel (presenter)
  Methylated DNA biomarkers and incident cancer in the American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) cohort
• Dr. Ying Wang (senior author)
  Merit Award
  Lung cancer metabolomics: A pooled analysis in the Cancer Prevention Studies
• Dr. Xuesong Han (senior author)
  Health Insurance continuity and survival among children, adolescents, and young adults with blood cancer: An analysis based on SEER-Medicaid data
• Dr. Xuesong Han (senior author)
  Association of medical debt and cancer mortality in the U.S.

Poster presentations

• Dr. Alpa Patel (presenter)
  Preclinical circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) shedding duration and prognostic implications of modeling 3669 participants from American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) and Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas substudy 3 (CCGA3)
• Dr. Robin Yabroff (presenter)
  Association of major adverse financial events and later state cancer diagnosis in the U.S.
• Jingxuan Zhao (presenter)
  County-level incarceration and cancer mortality in the U.S.
• Jingxuan Zhao (presenter)
  Associations of loneliness and mortality risk among cancer survivors in the U.S.
• Kewei (Sylvia) Shi (presenter)
  Association of Medicaid expansion with timely receipt of treatment and survival among patients with HER2-enriched breast cancer
• Dr. Zhiyuan (Jason) Zheng (presenter)
  Associations of cancer history, food insecurity, and nonmedical financial worry and mortality risk in the U.S.
• Dr. Xuesong Han (senior author)
  Merit Award
  Beyond transportation: Financial hardship, food insecurity, and care access barriers among US cancer survivors with transportation barriers to care
• Dr. Ying Wang (senior author)
  The role of metabolic perturbations in mediating the effects of ambient air pollution on lung cancer in the cancer prevention studies
• Dr. Robert Smith (presenter)
  Beneficial Effects of Repeated Participation in Breast Cancer Screening Upon Survival
• Dr. Hyuna Sung (presenter)
  Racial and ethnic disparities in survival among persons with subsequent primary cancer
• Dr. Robin Yabroff (senior author)
  Associations of employment disruptions and financial hardship among individuals diagnosed with cancer in the US
• Dr. Xuesong Han (lead author/not presenting)
  Association of Medicaid expansion with treatment receipt, delays in treatment initiation, and survival among young adult women with breast cancer

Volunteer leaders can help strengthen our presence at ASCO and our impact on people impacted by cancer. Watch ACS' social media channels for opportunities to amplify social media content throughout the annual meeting. And, stay tuned throughout the conference for additional updates on ACS involvement