The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2025 Annual Meeting is just around the corner. This event invites oncology professionals from around the globe come together to connect, collaborate, and inspire with a shared goal of transforming the future of cancer care.
Here’s what you should know about this year’s event at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago Illinois, May 30-June 3.
General Topics
Throughout the four-day program, over 200 sessions will complement this year’s theme: “Driving Knowledge to Action: Building a Better Future.” A combination of plenary sessions, oral abstract sessions, case-based panels, and poster presentations guarantee to intrigue and inspire attendees with clinically relevant cancer science information. Key themes include:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in clinical trials and cancer care
- Care delivery and quality care for cancer patients
- Developmental therapeutics, including immunotherapy, molecularly targeted agents, and tumor biology
- Global health and equitable cancer care
- Medical education and professional development
- Prevention, risk reduction, and genetics
- Symptom science and palliative care
There will also be tracks relating to specific categories of cancers, including:
- Breast cancer
- Central nervous system tumors
- Gastrointestinal cancers
- Genitourinary and gynecologic cancers
- Geriatric and pediatric oncology
- Head and neck cancer
- Lung cancer
- Melanoma and other skin cancers
- Sarcoma
The 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting will be full of informative and innovative talks and discussions, so we recommend planning ahead to create an agenda to make sure you’re able to fit the most relevant presentations into your personal itinerary.

ASCO Voices
The 2025 ASCO Voices session is a one-of-a-kind experience that will include personal narratives from the oncology professionals from around the globe. The lightning talks during this session are given without podiums or slides, giving full focus to the speakers’ messages.
Here are details on this year’s selected ASCO Voices:
Erica Campbell
Pinky Swear Foundation
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Advancing Equity in the Childhood Cancer Journey
Steven Clark Cunningham, MD, MLA, FACS
Saint Agnes Hospital Cancer Institute
Spiritual Care and Religious Literacy in Cancer Care
Naga Cheedella, MD
Cancer Care Choices: What Patients Want and What Oncologists Wish
Ashton Davidson
Umbrella Support Network
Breast Cancer Doesn’t Care About Gender
Katie Coleman
Chromophobe and Oncocytic Tumor Alliance
Too Young for Cancer
Networking Opportunities
In addition to all of the scheduled talks, the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting will provide many opportunities for connection and collaboration. A career fair will take place during the first three days of the event, highlighting available career options in hospitals, academic institutions, private practices, and oncology firms with recruiters ready to answer questions. Oncology authors, researchers, or individuals interested in publishing can meet with JCO Journals editors in JCO Central for discussions regarding manuscript submissions, scientific research, and publication amplification. For women in oncology, there will be a networking center with opportunities for one-on-one mentoring meetings, roundtable discussions, and panel talks.
The 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting will also feature a few lounges available for specific attendees to relax, network, and enjoy drinks and snacks. One lounge will be available for registered patient advocates or patient advocate exhibitors to network, enjoy refreshments, and attend special information sessions. Another lounge will be available for individuals interested in professional development, and it will offer opportunities to attend panel or roundtable talks and engage in one-on-one career conversations. Lastly, an exclusive lounge will be available for those who have donated to Conquer Cancer.
Exhibits
An impressive assortment of notable industry names will be exhibiting at the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting, including some faces familiar to Samba. The exhibit hall will be full of major pharmaceutical companies showcasing their oncology portfolios and drug pipelines, emerging biotech companies presenting novel cancer therapies, diagnostic companies highlighting advances in biomarker testing and early cancer detection, and more. Some well-known exhibiting companies include:
- AbbVie
- American Association for Cancer Research
- Amgen
- AstraZeneca
- Bayer
- Bristol Myers Squibb
- Epic
- Genentech
- Illumina
- Johnson & Johnson
- Labcorp
- Moderna
- NMDP
- Optum
- Pfizer Oncology
- Quest Diagnostics
We’re particularly excited about the presence of companies that we’ve partnered with, including Alloy Therapeutics, Eikon Therapeutics, Flagship Biosciences, Foresight Diagnostics, FYR, NTx Bio, Paige AI, Personalis, and SOPHiA GENETICS. Seeing these innovative companies transform oncology research, diagnosis, and treatment fills us with gratitude and hope for the future.

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