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The ABC Consensus Conference has established itself as the major international conference for advanced Breast Cancer, and a forum for sharing best clinical practices, inform on the latest scientific updates in the field and, mainly, continue, over the editions, advancing on the goal of improving outcomes for all patients with advanced breast cancer.
The ABC consensus conference started as a pioneering initiative of ESO in 2011, and from the willingness to change the abandonment feelings from ABC patients. Its primary goal is the development of international consensus guidelines for the management of advanced breast cancer patients. These guidelines are based on the most up-to date evidence and can be used to guide treatment decision making in many different health care settings globally, with the necessary adaptations due to different access to care. Throughout the years, these guidelines have been endorsed by several international and European organizations, and several organizations around the world have been adapting them to their country specific environment, particularly in terms of accessibility.

At ABC8, all topics will be presented from the perspective of a multidisciplinary and multi-professional approach, from basic research to clinical implementation. The conference will again close with a consensus session where discussion will focus on updating the ABC guidelines.

We are very much looking forward to meeting again face-to-face and come together as a global community at ABC8 in Lisbon, 6-8 November 2025!

 

THURSDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2025

 

 

 

9:00-10:30
Audit. I

Patient Advocay session (TBD)

 

9:00-10:30
Audit. II

Sponsored Satellite Symposium (TBD)

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00-12:30
Audit. I

Patient Advocay session (TBD)

 

11:00-12:30
Audit. II

Sponsored Satellite Symposium (TBD)

 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-15:10
Audit. I

Opening session

Chairs: Fatima Cardoso, PT, Larry Norton, US and Eric P. Winer, US

13:30 Welcome to Lisbon

Speaker TBC

13:45 Welcome to ABC8

Fatima Cardoso, PT

14:05 Keynote lecture

Speaker TBC

14:35 ABC8 Award lecture

Speaker TBC

15:10-15:55
Audit. I

Best Abstract Presentation

Chairs: Larry Norton, US and Ranjit Kaur, MY

15:05 Introduction

Chairs

15:10 Selected abstract 1

Speaker TBC

15:20 Selected abstract 2

Speaker TBC

15:30 Selected abstract 3

Speaker TBC

15:40 Discussion                      

All

15:55-16:25

Coffee break

 

16:25-18:00
Audit I

ABC Global Decade Report 2015-2025: How far have we come?

Chairs: Fatima Cardoso, PT and Anna Cabanes, US

16:25 Improving survival of patients living with ABC

Mariana Chavez Mac Gregor, US

16:45 ABC cancer registries: not there yet!

Vicki Durston, AU and Charlotte Coles, UK

17:05 Law and cancer: protecting people living with ABC

Sarah McHutchison, AU

17:20 Panel discussion

Chairs, Speakers and Marion Kuper, NZ

18:00-19:30
Audit. I

Patient Advocay session (TBD)

 

18:00-19:30
Audit. II

Sponsored Satellite Symposium (TBD)

 

19:30

Welcome cocktail

 

 

FRIDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2025

 

 

 

8:30-09:35
Audit. I

The evolving management of brain and leptomeningeal metastases

Chairs: Laura Biganzoli, IT and Eva Schumacher-Wulf, DE

8:30 The enigma of the blood brain barrier

Nancy Lin, US

8:45 The role of radiotherapy techniques

Orit Kaidar-Person, IL

9:00 The role of systemic therapies

Javier Cortes, ES

9:15 Case-based discussion: timing of local    vs. systemic approach

All

09:35-10:40
Audit. I

Improving quality of life for patients living with ABC

Chairs: Chairs: Belinda Kiel, AU and Isabelle Aloi Timeus, MX

9:35 Has quality of life improved in the last decade? - Global Decade Report

Karen Gelmon, CA

9:55 Exercise and Body Composition

Anne May, NL

10:10 Optimizing the integration and interface of palliative and oncological care

Matti Aapro, CH

10:25 Discussion

All

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

 

 

11:10-12:15
Audit. I

Optimizing clinical trials and drug development for the benefit of patients

Chairs: Shani Paluch-Shimon, IL and Claire Myerson, UK

11:10 Dose-response relationships in oncology: what are the goals of treatment?

Larry Norton, US

11:25 Innovative and adaptive trial designs

Hope Rugo, US

11:40 How valid and useful are new clinical trial endpoints

Bishal Gyawali, CA

11:55 Discussion

All

12:15-13:00
Audit. I

Long-term responders

 

Chairs: Volkmar Mueller, DE and Tanja Spanic, SI

12:15 Maintenance therapies: to escalate or de-escalate?

Joseph Gligorov, FR

 

12:30 Can we talk about cure

Eric P. Winer, US

 

12:45 Discussion

All

13:00-14:00

Lunch

 

13:00-14:00
Audit. II

Sponsored Satellite Symposium (TBD)

 

 

14:00-15:30
Audit. I

Accessibility and affordability: has the gap widened?

Chairs: Hesham Elghazaly, EG and Sarah Kutika Nyagabona, TZ

14:00 Learnings from the Global Decade Report 2015-2025

Alex Eniu, CH

14:15 Will AI and tele-medicine help bridge the gap?

Prue Francis, AU

14:30 The disconnect between reimbursement rules and advances in clinical practice

Richard Sullivan, UK

14:45 ATOM and the Max Foundation: models for solutions?

Pat Garcia-Gonzalez, US

15:00 Panel discussion

Chairs, Speakers and Frédérique Penault-Llorca, FR, Charlotte Coles, UK, Carlos Barrios, BR and Stacy Lewis, US

15:30-15:55

Coffee break

 

15:55-17:00
Audit. I

Biology

Chairs: William J. Gradishar, US and Rania Azmi, KW

15:55 Hallmarks systemic disease: implications for optimal ABC management

Barbara Pistilli, FR

16:15 Revisiting need, timing, and type of NGS including liquid and tumor biopsy choices

Lisa Carey, US

16:30 Implementing ctDNA in clinical practice: the ongoing challenges

François-Clement Bidard, FR

16:45 Discussion

All

17:00-17:55
Audit. I

News from ABC7

Chairs: Guiseppe Curigliano, IT and Julia Maues, US

17:00 HER-2+ ABC

Sandra Swain, US

17:15 ER+ / Her2 Neg ABC

Nadia Harbeck, DE

17:30Triple negative ABC

Rebecca Dent, SG

17:45 Discussion

All

18:00-19:30
Audit. I

Patient Advocay session (TBD)

 

18:00-19:30
Audit. II

Sponsored Satellite Symposium (TBD)

 

 

SATURDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2025

 

8:30-10:30   

 

Consensus session (part I)

ABC8 Chairs, Scientific Committee Members and Panellists

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00-11:15 

Report from ABC Patient Advocacy Committee 

 

11:15-12:45

Consensus session (part II)

ABC8 Chairs, Scientific Committee Members and Panellists

12:45-13:00 

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