ESMO: Rain in Spain doesn’t dampen spirits of 33,000 oncologists

Attendees for the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2023 arrived in Madrid to torrential downpours Thursday evening, a gloomy atmosphere that did not reflect the overall excitement of an industry conference that promised to showcase breakthroughs in breast, lung and prostate cancer.

Conference attendees view the latest poster presentations on Sunday afternoon at the ESMO Congress. (Annalee Armstrong/Fierce Biotech)
It was a return, if you can call it that, to normal after several years of pandemic interruption. But this year seemed to go even bigger than ever before.