ASH 2011: “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present”

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The 53rd annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), which took place on December 10th–13th, 2011 in San Diego, California was attended by more than 20,000 participants. More than 3,000 presentations comprised the data from out of more than 5,000 abstracts. Extracting the most relevant data out of this wealth of information is certainly a difficult task. Therefore, in this issue of MEMO, distinct experts in the field of haematology have taken on the task of working through the data to present—of course from a subjective point of view—a selection of the most interesting and clinically relevant data for clinical decision making in the future. As in the past 2 years, the overall emphasis at ASH 2011 was not on large randomized clinical trials aimed at definitely determining the role of defined treatments but rather on small hypothesis-generating translational studies. …