Chanock and Morton Present at ASCO
, by DCEG Staff
Stephen Chanock (left) and Lindsay Morton (right).
In June, Stephen J. Chanock, M.D., DCEG Director, and Lindsay Morton, Ph.D., delivered talks at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Chanock chaired a session on “Cancer genomics and inherited risk: Recent advances and current challenges,” in which he spoke on “Next-generation sequencing: Basic principles and interplay of tumor and germ-line genomes.” Dr. Morton chaired a session on “Second cancer: Genomics and detection,” in which she presented on “The rising tide of second cancers: 16% and climbing.”