ASCO’s “rock concert” moments came 17 years apart—in 2005 and 2022

DESTINY-04 results extend HER2-targeted therapy to a larger population in breast cancer

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The plenary session at the ASCO 2022 annual meeting saw that rarest of things at a scientific conference: a standing ovation. 

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George W. Sledge Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
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