Conference Scene: A selected review of abstracts from the 17th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology

摘要

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) is the largest neuro-oncology annual meeting in the USA and provides an exciting venue for the presentation of new brain cancer clinical trials and research data primarily pertaining to gliomas. The SNO 2012 meeting, comprising of one education day, three days of presentation, 80 oral presentations and 400 abstracts, provides a current overview of neuro-oncology including metastatic diseases of the CNS as well as primary brain tumors. This short article, highlights select abstracts presented at this meeting to provide a snapshot of a large and multifaceted meeting.