Asco In Action Podcast

Subscribe through iTunes and Google Play. Hello, and welcome to this edition of ASCO in Action. This is ASCO's podcast series where we explore policy and practice issues that are important to oncologists, the entire cancer care delivery team and, most importantly, the patients we care for, people with cancer. My name is Clifford Hudis, and I serve as the CEO of ASCO and the host of the ASCO in Action podcast series. For today's podcast, I do not have a guest. Instead, I am personally going to share key findings from ASCO's 2018 National Cancer Opinion Survey. We conduct this survey yearly, and we always hope to find interesting information that can help us as we talk to patients, policymakers, and all of the stakeholders in cancer care. This year was no different. Perhaps, the most striking and concerning finding for us this year was this. Nearly 4 in 10 Americans believe that cancer can be cured solely through alternative therapies. Over the next few moments, I'm going to explore this observation in a bi