July 24, 2026

Discovery Is an Act of Hope: Remembering Dr. Maura Gillison’s Pursuit of Truth

Maura Gillison did not chase awards. She chased answers, and especially clinically impactful answers. That distinction between the pursuit of recognition and the pursuit of truth defined everything ab...

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July 24, 2026

The Fear of Having Cancer Never Goes Away

There is a strong history of breast cancer in my family, and the fact that I have dense breasts adding to my risk of developing the disease, kept me vigilant about getting a yearly mammogram screening...

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July 24, 2026

Electronic Prior Authorization Requirements for Drugs

The Association for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) submitted formal comments (see https://bit.ly/4xYRg1j) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the 2026 CMS Interoperabili...

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July 24, 2026

Access Denied: Insurance Barriers to Biomarker Testing in Lung Cancer

In the last few decades, the rapidly growing field of precision medicine has improved the survival of patients with lung cancer. Yet the benefits of these therapies do not reach all patients. Non-smal...

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July 15, 2026

Over 50 Million Americans Live in Counties Without a Radiation Oncology Clinic

The national analysis found that from 2018 to 2025, radiation oncology practice sites disproportionately disappeared from rural areas and freestanding, community-based settings, raising concerns about...

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July 10, 2026

ASCO Remembers Karnofsky Award Recipient Maura L. Gillison, MD, PhD, Pioneer in HPV-Associated Cancers

ASCO joins the oncology community in mourning the loss of Maura L. Gillison, MD, PhD. As a medical oncologist specializing in thoracic/head and neck cancers, and as a molecular epidemiologist, Dr. Gil...

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July 02, 2026

AACR Statement and Call to Action Concerning OMB Proposal

On June 30, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) issued a statement responding to the proposed new regulations from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on how federal ...

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June 29, 2026

I Miss My Life

Mr. A was a young professional who walked into my outpatient clinic one morning with his mother by his side. He wore a warm smile, yet there was a quiet heaviness beneath it.    

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June 16, 2026

Using Artificial Intelligence to Prescribe Cancer Drugs and Perform Other Tasks

In a recent article in The ASCO Post, we discussed increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in oncology and how physician-complementing AI can empower oncologists to be even better at what they ...

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June 16, 2026

I Have Advanced-Stage Lung Cancer. I Refuse to Be a Victim of the Disease

I remember thinking on the day I turned 60, May 10, 2021, “This is going to be the best year of my life.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. Within weeks of feeling that swell of optimism about my futur...

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