ASCO at 50 ... we've come a long way, we know a lot, but we've only just begun

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I recently had both the pleasure and the challenge of attending ASCO 2014, the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. It was my first official ASCO meeting, and as an almost-third-year fellow in oncology, no amount of reading, research, scheduling, ASCO 2014 iPad app organizing, or even attending the day 1 early morning How to Navigate the Annual Meeting seminar could have prepared me for the experience.This year's meeting marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of ASCO in November 1964. Records document that the first meeting, in April 1965, took place in the Clover Room of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, where some 70 members and invited guests attended a series of 3 presentations on leukemia and multiple myeloma starting at 8 pm and finishing by 10 pm.