Caring for Every Patient, Learning From Every Patient

摘要

Every year, AS CO has a theme for its annual meeting, something to define the most impactful presentations and the state of oncology. In past years, the themes have addressed a particular aspect of cancer care. In 2018, for example, then-president of ASCO Dr Bruce Johnson dubbed the theme "Delivering Discoveries: Expanding the Reach of Precision Medicine." Whether precision medicine is truly available and appropriate for every patient is debatable, but 2018 certainly represented a broadening of our knowledge and the shifting of precision medicine to the mainstream of patient care. In other years, the message has been more patient-focused and implicit, as in 2017, when then-president Dr Daniel Hayes called the theme "Making a Difference in Cancer Care With You," which was a reference to multidisciplinary care. I love the message, but I'm not sure the theme carried through the meeting—multidisciplinary care was already part of our standard of care for so many cancers.