Conference Scene: Which way to go in the increasingly complex era of breast cancer heterogeneity

The St Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference is one of the most important conferences in the breast oncology field, aiming to highlight significant progress achieved in the field and yielding a consensus for the treatment of early breast cancer. This is a biennial conference in which approximately 50 of the best-known specialists in the world (medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, pathologists, imaging experts and researchers) vote on the most important topics related to early breast cancer treatment, based on scientific evidence and patient-centered treatment. During the conference, several presentations on the ‘state of the art’ in breast cancer biology, diagnosis and treatment, as well as poster sessions of selected abstract submissions on related issues, were presented.