Prior Presentation or Publication Policy

For a study to be eligible for acceptance into the ASCO Annual Meeting, the contents and conclusions of the abstract must not be presented at any scientific, medical, or educational meeting of 500 registrants or more or be published in a scientific, medical, or educational publication (in any medium), in whole or in part, before the Annual Meeting. Exception: An abstract submitted for presentation at the ASCO-cosponsored Breast Cancer Symposium, Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, Genitourinary Cancers Symposium; Annual Meeting on Molecular Markers in Cancer; or Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology may also be submitted for presentation at the 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting. However, authors are encouraged to provide updated data in the abstract, as the novelty of the data will be taken into account during the abstract selection process.