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Letter from the Editor

Editor
Dr Stefan Rauh, Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch, Esch, Luxembourg
Conference
ESMO 2017

Dear Reader, 

I am delighted to introduce this edition of « Highlights «  of ESMO’s 2017 Annual Congress in Madrid. 

3 Presidential Symposia were necessary to highlight the most practice-changing studies and 55 late-breaking abstracts were presented in total. 9 of these studies were simultaneoulsy published in the highest-rating medical journals. A total of 161 phase III studies, 177 phase II and 101 phase 1 studies were presented. Roughly 24,000 attendees from 131 different countries represents a new record for ESMO’s Annual.  

Many practice-changing study results are featured in this congress report : Immunotherapy is here to stay and expanding indications with impressive rapiditySignificant advances can be noted concerning targeted treatment of several solid tumours. Duration of adjuvant treatment in locally advanced colorectal cancer has been further clarified.  

Treatment advances may  come to an ever higher price (i.e CAR-T cell therapy).  The oncologists’ community is facing more and more challenges with « financial toxicity » and onco policy issues, which also took broad room during the congress, and likewise explain sessions on biosimilars. 

Please have a closer look at our summaries. For further details , look up the meeting recources on esmo.org  

Yours, sincerely, 

Stefan Rauh 

Biography  

Dr Stefan Rauh is currently working as haemato-oncologist in the oncology department of  Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch, Esch, Luxembourg. He is mainly involved in clinical work , but has also research and teaching activities, and is interested in public policy and international cooporation projects in oncology. 

He is Chair of the ESMO Practicing Oncologist’s Working Group since 2015,  member of the ESMO Quality Task Force and extended member of  the ESMO Public Policy Committee, Assistant Editor of ESMO Cancer Horizons and has been an ESMO Executive Board member for 2015-16. He is co-author of the 2017 ESMO ECPC Patient Survivorship Guide and an invited expert for the European Cancer Patient Coalition. (ECPC). 





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