I attended the world's biggest cancer conference. Doctors gave standing ovations to 2 major breakthroughs.

Yes, all three of those giant buildings in the foreground are part of McCormick Place, in Chicago.

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• The biggest cancer conference in the world — ASCO — wrapped up earlier this month in Chicago.
• Stunning new data suggested exercise, if done the right way, can be a colon cancer treatment.
• AstraZeneca was a perennial star, with new uses for its drugs in early-stage disease.

Recently, I landed on what felt like another planet.