Housing is open for SABCS 2025
Housing reservations can now be placed for the 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium for individuals and groups. Head over to the housing page for details, including pricing and a hotels map.
Patient Advocates booth applications open
Non-Profit and Advocacy groups interested in exhibiting in the Patient Adocate Pavillion in the 2025 SABCS Exhibition can now apply for space.
Scholar Awards available to abstract presenters
Every year, the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium® and its partners offer scholarships to help offset the cost of coming to the symposium for some presenters. The Call for Abstracts for the 2025 opened at 8 a.m. Central Time on Thursday, May 1, 2025, and will remain open until 6 p.m. CT on July 9, 2025. Apply for Scholar Awards while submitting your abstract.
New SABCS Snippet explains breaking news from DESTINY-Breast 11 clinical trial
(May 12, 2025) Dr. Saba Shaikh, a breast cancer oncologist at the Mays Cancer Center in San Antonio, Texas, and Dr. Sanu Modi, a breast medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, meet to talk about the newly released results from the Phase III DESTINY-Breast 11 clinical trial.
The video of their conversation is now online on the SABCS YouTube Channel. This conversation was filmed on Thursday, May 8, 2025. It is part of the SABCS Snippets series, which features doctors interviewing other doctors about progress in treating breast cancer.
The DESTINY-Breast 11 results were released in a May 7 press release available online at https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2025/enhertu-improved-pcr-in-early-stage-breast-cancer.html
The 2025 Abstract Submission Portal is now open
Abstracts are now being accepted for the 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Head on over to the Abstracts Page to learn more, see our Abstracts Guidelines PDF and begin your submittal.
SABCS Snippet reacts to breaking news from recent phase three studies
(April 23, 2025) Dr. Virginia Kaklamani, co-director of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, and Dr. Sara Tonaley, chief of the Division of Breast Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, met in the latest SABCS Snippet to talk about two new studies that shared positive results of clinical trials in the past week - the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast09 trial and the Phase III ASCENT-04/KEYNOTE-D19 study.
The video of their conversation is now online on the SABCS YouTube Channel. This conversation was filmed on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, and is part of the SABCS Snippets series, which features doctors interviewing other doctors about progress in treating breast cancer.
Videos of all 2024 sessions now on the SABCS YouTube Channel
Videos of Lectures, Poster Spotlights, Educational sessions, Career Development sessions, State of the Art sessions, and more - all 64 sessions of SABCS 2024 - are now live on the SABCS YouTube Channel.
On March 31, access to the session videos disappeared with our virtual site. But now they are back and accessible to anyone, not just those who registered to attend in 2024.
We loaded the sessions on YouTube in the order of the 2024 program. You can watch the videos however you would like, of course, but to make it easier, we made playlists for each day of the symposium. You can find them on the SABCS YouTube playlists page.
Be sure to like and leave comments on the videos you watch. Also be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you never miss when we post Snippets and other videos throughout the year.
Key dates for SABCS 2025 released
Some of the most important dates and deadlines have been released for the 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
- May 1 - Call for Abstracts opened
- May 19 - General Housing open for reservations
- July 9 - Deadline for Abstract submittal
- Late July - Symposium registration opens
- September 2 - Call for Late-breaking Abstracts opens
- September 30 - Deadline for Late-breaking Abstract submittal
- Tuesday, December 9, through Friday, December 12 - 2025 Symposium in San Antonio, Texas
More important dates will be released soon, as the schedule for 2025 comes together. Be sure to check back on sabcs.org often for the latest updates.
Nominations sought for 2025 McGuire Lecture Award
Nominations are now being accepted for the William L. McGuire Award and Lectureship. The William L. McGuire Award and Lectureship is given annually at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium® in recognition of an investigator whose extraordinary and sustained achievements in translational and/or clinical research have made an impact on our understanding of the pathogenesis and/or outcome of breast cancer patients.
The lecturer is selected by the SABCS McGuire Award Committee through a nomination process. The selection is based on the following criteria:
- Lecturers are respected figures with an international reputation.
- They have made significant contributions to the field of breast cancer research.
- They are known as skilled presenters.
- They present a topic of high current interest related to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer or to the study of its underlying mechanisms
The deadline for submitting nominations is May 30, 2025. Nominations must be submitted electronically at 2025 SABCS William L. McGuire Award Nominations Survey on Survey Monkey. Nominators must provide a nomination letter describing why the candidate is being nominated along with a curriculum vitae. The awarded lecturer will be announced in the fall.
Laura J. van 't Veer, PhD (center), receives the 2024 McGuire Award from SABCS Co-directors Dr. Virginia Kaklamani and Dr. Carlos Arteaga. van 't Veer is professor and Angela and Shu Kai Chan Endowed Chair in Cancer Research in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the director of applied genomics and leader of the Breast Oncology Program for the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Thank you so much for joining SABCS 2024
The 2024 version of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium is complete. Thanks to all of you for your participation. More than 11,000 people attended either in-person or online, an all-time record. They heard some amazing presentations, including clinical trial studies on some drugs that may someday soon be available for use with your patients in your clinics.
Again, we want to say thank you for joining in, sharing your research, and contributing to the beautiful sense of community that exists among Breast Cancer clinicians, researchers, young investigators, and patient advocates through SABCS. Rest assured we are already working with our partners to plan an even better SABCS 2025. Mark your calendars now. It's scheduled for December 9 - 12, 2025, in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in beautiful, historic, San Antonio, Texas.
2024 Video highlights available online, and coming to a city near you
The Best of SABCS is an important extension of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, offering both highlights of the happenings this past week - with analysis - and highlight events in places around the world for doctors who were unable to make it to SABCS. Best of SABCS meetings highlighting SABCS 2024 are already scheduled for 11 locations in the USA in the next three months, and at locations around the world from Canada, to Netherlands, to Singapore.
Future SABCS dates
- December 9-12, 2025
- December 8-11, 2026
- December 7-10, 2027
- December 5-8, 2028
- December 4-7, 2029
- December 10-13, 2030
We hope you will join the breast cancer community at SABCS this and every year.