ESMO Consensus Conferences

The ESMO Guidelines Committee has introduced consensus conferences to discuss key questions and complement the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Focused on specific tumour type, they are updated annually and published in Annals of Oncology. The panel of experts participating in each consensus conference produces a manuscript which is submitted to Annals of Oncology and published following peer review.

ESMO Consensus Conference on Malignant Lymphoma, published on-line in February 2013 and November 2012

Published manuscripts (based on the ESMO conference held in Lugano in 2010):

• ESMO Consensus conferences: guidelines on malignant lymphoma. Part 2: marginal zone lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, peripheral T-cell lymphoma
• ESMO Guidelines consensus conference on malignant lymphoma 2011 part 1: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), follicular lymphoma (FL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

ESMO Consensus Conference on Prostate Cancer, published on-line in January 2013

Published manuscript (based on the ESMO conference held in Zurich in 2011):

• Prostate cancer: ESMO Consensus Conference Guidelines 2012

ESMO Consensus Conference on Colorectal Cancer, published on-line in September 2012

Published manuscript (based on the ESMO Conference held in Lugano in 2010):

• ESMO Consensus Guidelines for management of patients with colon and rectal cancer. A personalised approach to clinical decision making

1st ESMO Consensus Conference in Lung Cancer, Lugano 2010

Published manuscripts:

• Small-cell lung cancer
• Metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer: consensus on pathology and molecular tests, first-line, second-line, and third-line therapy