SABC: Choose Your Words Carefully

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Here’s a little lesson in semantics for physicians, courtesy of a breast cancer patient advocate.  During the Q and A session following one of the presentations in the main hall, a patient advocate went up to the mike and pointed out to the speaker and all of her colleagues in the [...]

SABC: What’s Up With the Badge Nazis?

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
I—and the other attendees of SABC—have been pestered over and over again by the badge nazis here in the convention center.  These are individuals employed to keep people without badges from the presentations, the posters, and the press room.  They are more polite than the Soup Nazi of Seinfeld fame but [...]

How EGMN Rises Above the Rest

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 
If you want the full picture of trial results presented at medical meetings, you need to get your coverage from Elsevier Global Medical News.  Here’s a good example of just one reason why.
This morning, I finished up a story about the first planned results from the TEAM trial, which showed a survival benefit [...]

SABC: How to Pack a Room

The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio, TX
I’ve never attended a meeting in a room that could seat thousands that actually was seating thousands.  I fought to find a seat at this morning’s session at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.  By my back-of-an-envelope calculations, there were easily 5,000 people seated in the [...]