Annual Meeting Proceedings Part 1 - American Society of Clinical ...

Letter from the Editor
The 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting Proceedings Part I (a
supplement to the Journal of Clinical Oncology) is
an enduring record of the more than 2,700 abstracts
selected by the ASCO Scientific Program Committee for
presentation at the 48th Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Clinical Oncology, held June 1–5, in
Chicago, Illinois. Accepted abstracts not presented at
the meeting are available in full-text versions on
ASCO.org and are included in the online supplement to
the May 20 issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology at
JCO.org.
The majority of abstracts selected for presentation are
included here in full and are categorized by scientific
track. Abstracts are ordered numerically according to
presentation type within a track. Presentation types
include Oral Abstract Sessions, Clinical Science Symposia,
Poster Discussion Sessions, and General Poster
Sessions. Abstracts include the presenting author only.
The full list of abstract authors and their disclosure
information can be found online at abstract.asco.org.
Certain abstracts are represented here by abstract title
and presenting author only. These include Clinical
Review Abstracts (CRA), many of which will have important,
and in some cases, immediate implications for
patient care; Late-Breaking Abstracts (LBA), which
feature results of phase III trials for which data were not
available at the time of ASCO’s regular submission
deadline; and Plenary Abstracts, which were selected by
the Scientific Program Committee for their potential to
have practice-changing results. The full-text versions of
abstracts within these three designations will be publically
released on ASCO.org on the morning of their
scheduled presentation at the Annual Meeting (abstracts
scheduled for presentation on Tuesday will be
released on Monday morning). These abstracts will also
be included in the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting Proceedings
Part II, an online supplement to the June 20 issue of
Journal of Clinical Oncology on JCO.org. Print versions
of these abstracts will be available onsite at the Annual
Meeting in the ASCO Daily News.
All of the abstracts carry Journal of Clinical Oncology
citations. The following are citation examples for print
and electronic abstracts, respectively:
J Clin Oncol 30:5s, 2012 (suppl; abstr LBA1)
J Clin Oncol 30, 2012 (suppl; abstr e12000)
Should you have any questions or comments about this
publication, we encourage you to provide feedback by
contacting us at abstracts@asco.org.
Michael A. Carducci, MD
Editor, 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting Proceedings