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1Department of Neurology, Division of Neuro-Oncology, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Research Cancer Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, 825 Eastlake Avenue East, Mailstop: G4-940, Seattle, WA 98109-1023, USA. chambemc@u.washington.edu
Abstract:
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the largest clinical oncology meeting in the USA, meets annually and consistently provides an exciting forum to present new cancer clinical trials and research data. The ASCO 2011 neuro-oncology session, comprising of 3 days of presentations and over 100 abstracts, provided an overview of neuro-oncology, including both metastatic diseases of the CNS and primary brain tumors. This brief article attempts to highlight select abstracts presented at this years meeting in an organizational manner that will hopefully provide a portrait of the large and multifaceted meeting.
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