Annie Wong, Consultant Medical Oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Senior Lecturer at The University of Auckland and University of Otago, Lung, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“It was a privilege to co-chair with our ASCOBT26 session with the amazing Roselle De Guzman. We wanted to ask, how do we bring all these impressive technological advances to make cancer care more equitable?
From Data to Delivery: Advancing Equitable Oncology in the Asia-Pacific Region-Bridging Gaps With Common Sense.
So grateful to our experts for their lessons:
CS Pramesh highlighted the health-system revolution needed and showcasing 🇮🇳 India’s impressive change to deliver sustainable/low cost care closer to home
Neal Palafox from Hawaii on building trust w stakeholders for THEIR priorities
Kan Yonemori: introducing the powerhouse ATLAS collaboration to improve pan-Asia trials. They have made enormous progress in the last few years. Can’t wait to see more!
Bishal Gyawali sharing the Common Sense Oncology manifesto to cut low value treatments & promote better access to therapies w KNOWN benefits. We are so grateful for his efforts in delivery high quality education/critical appraisal to clinicians, policy makers, patients and stakeholders
So much food for thought American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).”
Roselle De Guzman, Oncologist at Manila Central University-FDTMF Hospital, shared this post, adding:
“Thank you, Annie Wong!
We are so honored to share that stage with the excellent panel of speakers who are doing incredible work that are delivering a different dimension of ‘Breakthrough’ in this part of the world!”

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