American society of clinical oncology 2013 annual meeting update: Summary of selected gynecologic oncology abstracts

摘要

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) took place in Chicago, Illinois from May 31-June 4 with the theme "Building Bridges to Conquer Cancer". Approximately 30,000 professionals attended the meeting from around the globe. This was an impressive year for gynecologic oncology as 132 abstracts were selected, including representation at 2 of 5 abstracts in the main plenary session and 6 phase III trials. In total there were 11,3, 25,88, and 5 abstracts chosen for oral, clinical symposium, poster discussion, general poster and trials in progress poster sessions, respectively. This report highlights selected phase II and HI clinical trials in ovarian, en-dometrial and cervical cancer.