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Your Clinical Practice Committee

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John V. Cox DO FACP

Two years ago, Dr. Jack Keech (my friend and a former CPC chair) challenged me with a series of rhetorical questions: Why should an ASCO member belong to his or her state society? Why do you think the state societies matter? Doesn't the national organization really do all the heavy lifting? Why do you waste your time with Texas Society of Medical Oncology (my state society)?

It does matter now. And it is going to matter more in the future.

ASCO's State/Regional Affiliate Program was created in 1993 to establish a formal link between ASCO . . . [Click for More]

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