Oral presentations are often the highlight of the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, with everything from clinical trial result announcements to late-breaking studies explaining the latest from research centers around the world. There are more than 10 different types of sessions that qualify as oral presentations, including Educational Sessions, Case Discussions, and Mini-Orals (known as Rapid Fire on the Program). General Sessions often include thousands of audience members, both in Hall 1 in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, and online through our virtual platform.
For those of you who will be presenting orally in 2025, keep reading for instructions, standards, deadlines, and more.
Presentation Instructions
Standards
All presentations must be unbiased and free of commercial promotion. A content expert will review slides for absence of bias, product promotion, and conflicts of interest before and during the session.
Key Deadlines
• Presentation Slides Upload: Thursday, November 13, 2025, 11:59 PM CTfor CME review
• Hotel Booking: November 17, 2025
Requirements
Presenters may give oral presentations according to the following limits:
Presentation Length
- Oral Presentations: 10-minute presentation followed by a 5-minute Q&A
- Mini-Oral (Rapid Fire) Presentations: 5-minute presentation followed by a 3-minute Q&A.
Presentation Format
- File Type: PowerPoint only
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9.
- Disclosure Slide: The second slide must list financial disclosures for CME compliance.
- Header & Footer Requirements:
- Header: San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium®, December 9–12, 2025
- Footer: This presentation is the intellectual property of the author/presenter. Contact [insert your email address] for permission to reprint and/or distribute.
Download the 2025 Slide Template
Senior Investigator presenting limits
• 1 oral presentation in a General Session
• Maximum of 2 oral presentations across Mini-Orals, Poster Spotlights, or LBAs
Junior Investigator presenting limits
• Up to 2 oral presentations in a General Session
• Maximum of 3 oral presentations across Mini-Orals, Poster Spotlights, or LBAs
Upload and Review
- Upload slides to the Presenter Portal by Thursday, November 13, 2025, 11:59 PM CT for CME review.
- Session moderators will review slides in advance.
- The final uploaded version will be used for presentation.
Session and Onsite Guidelines
- Arrive 30 minutes before your scheduled session.
- Review your presentation in the Speaker Ready Room at least 24 hours prior to your session to ensure formatting, fonts, and media play correctly.
Copyright and Reuse
Authors may reuse SABCS® abstracts with attribution to Clinical Cancer Research supplement for
- Research articles, reviews, or books
- Presentations
- Institutional websites
- Doctoral theses
For more information visit: https://sabcs.org/abstracts/
Presentations and Permissions
With presenter consent, slides will be posted on the SABCS® Virtual Site and the SABCS® YouTube account after the symposium.
All accepted abstracts, unless withdrawn prior to publication or accepted as a late exception, will be published in the online Proceedings, as an online only supplement in Clinical Cancer Research, and as SABCS Sessions and Poster Resources online.
To decline posting, email sabcs@uthscsa.edu.
For more information visit: https://sabcs.org/abstracts/
Registration and Housing
Register: SABCS Registration
Book Hotel: SABCS Hotels
Support and Contact
Upload Support: support@sessionupload.com
Support hours: 9am-5pm CST 7 days a week, response within 24hrs
SABCS Staff: sabcs@uthscsa.edu