The acclaimed Late Breaking session showcases the program committee’s selection of abstracts with novel, substantive and innovative data that were not available by the general abstract submission deadline and would otherwise not be presented at the meeting. The session also highlights work that may impact clinical practice in the near future and provides a venue to present these important findings to a wider audience.
The concept of late-breaking is a very popular one, but the pendulum may have overswung to such an extent that the focus has obscured the intrinsic value of original research presented at the meeting in other sessions and perhaps given these findings an undue degree of credibility. While it is clearly essential that the vast majority of ASTCT meetings include the presentations of new and exciting results, it is equally important that the full scope of this work is recognized.
Late-breaking abstracts are those that contain data not available prior to the MSMilan2023 general abstract submission deadline. These should be original and must demonstrate significant scientific merit. They should not be primarily confirmatory or extensions of previous work, or merely mechanistic and hypothesis-generating (though these are all important), and they must be novel and have the potential to change practice in the future.
Authors submitting a late-breaking abstract should ensure that the work is complete and does not duplicate or repeat previous presentations or publication(s). The presenting author must be registered for MSMilan2023 and must be prepared to give the oral presentation in the event of acceptance.
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