36th San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: focus on clinical trial results.

The 2013 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held under the auspices of the San Antonio Cancer Therapy & Research Center, the AACR, and Baylor College of Medicine, took place in San Antonio (TX, USA) on 10-14 December 2013. This international Symposium was attended by more than 7000 academic and private physicians and researchers from more than 90 countries, involved in all the fields of breast cancer (BC) research and treatment, including basic, translational and clinical research. Topics of discussion covered all aspects of BC research, from basic science to clinical practice, from prevention to targeted therapies. This report will focus on some of the most important results that were presented during the meeting.