Neuro-oncology: a selected review of ASCO 2014 abstracts

ASCO 2014 Annual Meeting Chicago, IL, USA, 30 May–3 June 2014 ASCO, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, is the largest clinical oncology meeting in the USA that meets annually and is a venue at which new cancer clinical trials and research data are presented. The ASCO 2014 CNS tumors section comprising 2 days of posters and oral presentations and over 100 abstracts provides an up-to-date overview of neuro-oncology, including both metastatic diseases of the CNS as well as primary brain tumors. This brief review selectively highlights presentations presented at this years meeting in an organizational manner that will hopefully provide a portrait of a large and multifaceted meeting.