CoC Announces 2023 Paper Competition Winners

The CoC announced the winners of the annual Cancer Research Paper Competition at its Plenary Session in Boston, MA.

Judging in the Clinical Research category was based on originality, scientific merit and clinical relevance to clinical oncology, and the mission of the CoC.

• First place: Lauren M. Janczewski, MD, MS, Identifying Barriers to Completion of Radiotherapy: Baseline Findings of a Commission on Cancer National Quality Improvement Project
• Second place: Mohamed Aly, MD, Long-Term Survival After Surgical Resection for Rectal Cancer is Associated with Textbook Outcome but Not Surgical Case Volume
• Third place: Mohamed Aly, MD, Volume Isn’t What it Used to Be – Reconsidering the Minimum Case Volume Threshold for Lung Cancer Resection

There were no winners this year in the Basic Science category.

The annual Cancer Research Paper Competition is a collaborative activity of the CoC and the American Cancer Society and is open to all residents and fellows-in-training. The 2024 competition will open in January. More information is available on the CoC website.