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Luis E. Raez, MD, FACP, FCCP, immediate past president of Florida Society of Clinical Oncology, evaluates the role of biomarker testing for lung cancer and other disease types.

Richard McDonough, MD, joins the Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute.

Oncologists from Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute recently participated in the FLASCO Fellow & Resident Educational Training Program.

A 72-year-old White man presented with chest pain, cough, and dyspnea. He had a medical history of type 1 diabetes that was adequately controlled, and was a former smoker.

Molecular testing practices and treatment decisions can vary for patients with non–small cell lung cancer. Cesar A. Perez, MD, and a group of other physicians discussed next steps in care for a patient with non–small cell lung cancer whose molecular test results revealed a RET mutation.

In season 2, episode 1 of Targeted Talks, Nagashree Seetharamu, MD, led a conversation with Luis E. Raez, MD, about the evolving treatment landscape for EGFR exon 20–mutated lung cancer.

Winston Tan, MD, discusses the current treatment landscape for patients with thyroid cancer. He highlighted the importance of first determining if a patient with thyroid cancer has benign or malignant thyroid nodules, which can be identified with the use of diagnostic biopsies. He also discussed the standard-of-care treatment options for these different subtypes of patients once they are identified.

Winston Tan, MD, discusses the work of the Florida Society for Clinical Oncology, which helps improve the treatment of patients with all cancers.

The Rapid Integration Program, a training initiative for new physician&rsquo;s assistants and nurse practitioners working in the field of oncology, is a Florida Society of Community Oncology (FLASCO) initiative that came from an ASCO meeting. Winston Tan, MD, of the Head and Neck Cancer Center at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, speaking during the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting, was in attendance at the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting when the idea for a training program was first introduced.<br /> &nbsp;

Eric Harris, DO, hematologist/oncologist, Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, gives Targeted Oncology an insiders perspective on the current state of community oncology in Florida and some ways the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology (FLASCO) aids in improving patient care by helping physicians.

Targeted Oncology,&nbsp;a multimedia resource that offers content and expert opinions on standard and emerging treatments in the oncology field, announces the addition of The Florida Society of Clinical Oncology to its Strategic Alliance Partnership program.