title: A selected review of abstracts from the 19th annual meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology.
abstract: The Society for Neuro-Oncology is the largest neuro-oncology meeting in the USA that meets annually and provides a multiday venue presenting new brain cancer clinical trials and basic research data primarily pertaining to gliomas. The Society for Neuro-Oncology 2014 meeting comprising one education day, 3 days of presentation, over 200 oral presentations and 600 abstracts provides a comprehensive overview of neuro-oncology that includes metastatic diseases of the CNS as well as primary brain tumors. This summary attempts to highlight select abstracts presented at this year's meeting in a short review that provides a synopsis of a large and multifaceted meeting.
authors.forename: Marc C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Chamberlain
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: SNO 2014 abstracts; primary and secondary (metastatic) brain tumors