Finally, Peter Naredi, Jean Charles Soria and Michael Baumann summarise why this meeting is the must-attend for surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists respectively, and state the case that from the multidisciplinary, multiprofessional perspective, there is no other oncology meeting that can match the promise of the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, 23 – 27 September 2001, Stockholm Sweden.