Abstract submission is now closed.
Abstracts from the congress are published as soon as they are released.
Abstract submission categories
- Basic science
- Biliary tract cancer, incl. cholangiocarcinoma
- Biomarkers (agnostic)
- Breast cancer, early stage
- Breast cancer, locally advanced
- Breast cancer, metastatic
- CNS tumours
- Colorectal cancer
- Developmental therapeutics
- Endocrine tumours
- Genitourinary tumours, prostate
- Genitourinary tumours, non-prostate
- Gynaecological cancers
- Haematological malignancies
- Head and neck cancer, excluding thyroid
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
- Investigational immunotherapy
- Melanoma and other skin tumours
- Neuroendocrine tumours
- New diagnostic tools
- NSCLC, early stage
- NSCLC, locally advanced
- NSCLC, metastatic
- Oesophagogastric cancer
- Palliative care
- Pancreatic cancer
- Psycho-oncology
- Public policy
- Sarcoma
- SARS-CoV-2 and cancer
- SCLC
- Supportive care
- Thoracic malignancies, other
- Thyroid cancer
- Translational research (agnostic)
- Tumour biology and pathology
- Miscellaneous
- Cancer Nursing Education: Challenges and opportunities
- Cancer Nursing: Digital innovations in health
- Cancer Nursing: Leadership
- Cancer Nursing: Palliative and end-of-life care
- Cancer Nursing: Patient and occupational safety
- Cancer Nursing: Psychosocial care and survivorship
- Cancer Nursing: SARS-CoV-2 and cancer
- Cancer Nursing: Symptom management
- Cancer Nursing: Translating research into practice
Publication schedule for accepted abstracts
- Abstracts accepted for presentation at the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020 as Poster (suffix ‘P’, ‘TiP’) and EONS Poster (prefix ‘CN’) were published online via the ESMO website at 00:05 CEST on Monday, 14 September 2020.
- Abstracts and late-breaking abstracts accepted for presentation at the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020 as Mini Oral (suffix ‘MO’) were published online via the ESMO website at 00:05 CEST on Friday, 18 September 2020.
- Abstracts and late-breaking abstracts accepted for presentation at the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020 as Proffered Paper (suffix ‘O’) and EONS Proffered Paper (prefix ‘CN’) were published online via the ESMO website at 00:05 CEST on Saturday, 19 September 2020.
- Abstracts and Late-breaking abstracts selected for inclusion in the ESMO Press Programme were published online according to a dedicated schedule which will be made available by early September.
Abstracts |
Date and Time |
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Abstracts accepted as:
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Monday, 14 September 2020 |
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Abstracts and late-breaking abstracts accepted as:
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Friday, 18 September 2020 |
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Abstracts and late-breaking abstracts accepted as:
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Saturday, 19 September 2020 |
Abstracts and late-breaking abstracts selected for inclusion in the ESMO Press Programme (suffix ‘PR’) |
Published according to a dedicated schedule to be made available by early September. |
Deadline |
Date and time |
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Wednesday, 20 May 2020 |
Late-breaking abstracts |
*Monday, 17 August 2020 |
* A preliminary abstract indicating the data expected to be available by the late-breaking abstract deadline must be submitted online by 20 May 2020 and the intent to submit a late-breaking abstract check-box must be ticked.
Late-breaking abstracts may be submitted for high quality, new research findings from randomised phase II or phase III trials with implications for clinical practice or understanding of disease processes.
Only abstracts for which no conclusive data are available at the time of the abstract submission deadline of 20 May 2020 will be considered for late-breaking status.
The work must not have been previously published in any publication in a peer review setting or presented at a meeting of any other scientific organisation prior to the ESMO 2020, and a pre-planned analysis must be scheduled between the regular submission deadline of 20 May 2020 and the late-breaking submission deadline of 17 August 2020.
The final late-breaking abstract deadline of 17 August 2020 is under no circumstances to be considered as an extension of the general submission deadline.
A preliminary abstract indicating the data expected to be available by the late-breaking abstract deadline must be submitted online by 20 May 2020 and the intent to submit a late-breaking abstract check-box must be ticked. The abstract must include the title, first author (with full contact details), objectives, rationale, methodology and anticipated data.
Trial in Progress (TiP) abstracts in all phases of clinical research (phases I to III) may be submitted to ESMO 2020.
It is expected that abstracts submitted as Trial in Progress are ongoing trials that have not reached any protocol-specified endpoints for analysis and consequently will only require the completion of two (2) sections:
- Background
- Trial design
Notes:
- Recruitment must have already begun or have been completed by the abstract submission deadline of 20 May 2020.
- Abstracts including results or preliminary data will be rejected.
- Trial in Progress abstracts will NOT be considered for Proffered Paper (oral) presentation or Mini Oral.
- Encore TiP abstracts will NOT be accepted.