A selected review of abstracts from the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO)

20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology, San Antonio, TX, USA, 18-22 November 2015 The Society for Neuro-Oncology is the largest neuro-oncology meeting in the USA that meets annually and provides a multiday venue that showcases new brain cancer clinical trial results and basic research primarily pertaining to gliomas. The Society for Neuro-Oncology 2015 meeting comprising one education day, 2 days of premeetings and 3 days of presentation, over 200 oral presentations and 900 abstracts provides an overview of contemporary neuro-oncology that includes metastatic disease of the central nervous system as well as primary brain tumors. This review attempts to highlight select abstracts presented at this year's meeting in a short summary that provides a synopsis of a large and multifaceted meeting.

A selected review of abstracts from the 19th annual meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology

The Society for Neuro-Oncology is the largest neuro-oncology meeting in the USA that meets annually and provides a multiday venue presenting new brain cancer clinical trials and basic research data primarily pertaining to gliomas. The Society for Neuro-Oncology 2014 meeting comprising one education day, 3 days of presentation, over 200 oral presentations and 600 abstracts provides a comprehensive overview of neuro-oncology that includes metastatic diseases of the CNS as well as primary brain tumors. This summary attempts to highlight select abstracts presented at this year's meeting in a short review that provides a synopsis of a large and multifaceted meeting.

A selected review of abstracts from the 11th Congress of the European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO)

The European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) is the largest neuro-oncology meeting in Europe that meets biannually and reproducibly provides an exciting forum to present new brain cancer clinical trials and research data. The EANO 2014 meeting in Turin, Italy (9-12 October 2014) was comprised of 3 days of presentation, nearly 50 oral presentations and nearly 350 abstracts provides a contemporary overview of neuro-oncology that includes both metastatic diseases of the CNS as well as primary brain tumors. This summary attempts to highlight select abstracts presented at the meeting of EANO 2014 in a short review that provides a portrait of a large and multifaceted meeting.

A selected review of abstracts from the 4th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology

The 4th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology (WFNO), San Francisco, CA, USA, 21-24 November 2013 The 4th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology (WFNO) was the largest neuro-oncology meeting that meets once every 4 years and brings together clinicians and scientists from all parts of the world whose focus is on new brain cancer clinical trials and research primarily pertaining to gliomas. The WFNO 2013 meeting included 1 education day, 2.5 days of presentation, 13 sunrise sessions, one town hall meeting, one mini-symposium, 130 oral presentations and 900 abstracts. This short meeting review highlights select adult clinical abstracts presented at WFNO 2013 that will only in part encompass the contents of a large and multifaceted meeting.