Highlights from the 11th Breast-Gynecological and Immunooncology International Cancer Conference (BGICC), 17–18 January 2019, Egypt

1 May 2019

Hesham El-Ghazaly, Nermean Bahie-eldin, Adel Aref

During the 11th Breast-Gynecological and Immunooncology International Cancer Conference (BGICC), which was held on 17 and 18 January 2019, in Cairo, Egypt, around 100 international, regional and national experts from every continent presented the latest updates in breast cancer, gynaecological cancers and immunotherapy in oncology. Through this report, we highlight the important data and consensus issues that were discussed during the conference.

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