There are a large number of great scientific and educational meetings to choose from, but the 2013 Breast Cancer Symposium, Saturday, September 7 to Monday, September 9, in San Francisco is unique. It is big enough to draw clinical and translational experts in all disciplines and informal enough to allow easy access, conversation, and networking.

A special focus, as evidenced by the multidisciplinary societies that sponsor it, is on strengthening team approaches by sharing the latest clinically relevant advances and promising research from all areas of treatment. Indeed, this attention to the multidisciplinary approach in breast cancer has been the foundation of the Breast Cancer Symposium since Eric Winer and I first chaired it in 2007.

Attendees can look forward to seeing colleagues, leaders, and newly emerging researchers get together all in one room. I will be speaking again this year (I wonder why!) and look forward to joining you for informative debates, thoughtful discussions, and emerging consensus on many of the evolving challenges and controversies in breast cancer. Please come and actively participate. You will help make the meeting even more rewarding while considering new approaches and revisiting established ones.

You really won’t want to miss this important learning opportunity, and I hope to see you there.