Brad Lon­car­'s AS­CO18 pre­view: Past AS­COs point to the top drugs that will soon el­bow for the Os­cars of can­cer R&D

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To pre­pare for the fu­ture, it helps to look back on what has hap­pened in the past. AS­CO is a great bench­mark for do­ing that. Drug de­vel­op­ment does not hap­pen overnight. A pat­tern of re­al progress emerges if you view things in the con­text of two “AS­COs” ago, or five, or ten. I al­ways try to ap­proach it from this macro per­spec­tive as I pre­pare for the con­fer­ence be­cause it helps set the stage for how to­day’s new de­vel­op­ments might fit in.

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