Annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Orlando, Florida, 13 to 17 May 2005

Importantly, it was the first time ever that the FDA included in their approval of an oncology treatment a quality of life claim.

The 13 nuclear medicine and oncology centres operated by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission continue to provide facilities to more than a third of a million patients per year.

Yesterday, the National Cancer Institute announced a new program called the Physical Sciences and Oncology, where physicists, mathematicians, are brought in to think about cancer, people who never approached it before.

And we're entering the era of personalized oncology, the ability to leverage all of this data together, analyze the tumor and come up with a real, specific cocktail for the individual patient.

Women health centers have been established in several hospitals, offering the following wards and services labor rooms, women and obstetrician wards, fertility treatments (including IVF), specializing genecology wards (colposcopy, oncology, adolescent medicine, premenopause, high risk pregnancy, etc.).

Now as I was training in clinical medicine and hematology and oncology and stem cell transplantation, what we had instead, cascading through the regulatory network at the FDA, were these substances arsenic, thalidomide and this chemical derivative of nitrogen mustard gas.

And the last slide I want to show you is from I was again, this swami that I studied with for so many years, and I did a combined oncology and cardiology Grand Rounds at the University of Virginia medical school a couple of years ago.

In 2008, the American Society of Clinical Oncology commissioned a report that declared that the partial type of genetic analysis offered by 23andMe had not been clinically proved to be effective in cancer care. Two years later, the US Government Accountability Office concluded after a lengthy investigation that DTC genetic tests provide misleading results a situation that is complicated further by deceptive marketing.

In the fight against childhood cancer, this concept evolved into what is now the Children s Oncology Group (COG), which unites more than 8,000 experts at more than 200 leading children s hospitals, universities, and cancer centers across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe. The COG conducts research across the spectrum of cancers that afflict children, and has approximately 100 clinical trials underway around the world.