We are pleased to announce that the Fourth International Symposium on Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer will be held April 25-27, 2012, at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montréal, Québec. We encourage you to mark the dates now in your 2012 agenda, and plan to join us for what will undoubtedly be an exciting and professionally rewarding event.

Hosted by the Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Foundation and the Program in Cancer Genetics at McGill University, this biennial Symposium will again offer a unique opportunity to look at all aspects of the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are responsible for a considerable fraction of early-onset breast cancer.

Following on three previous successful symposia, we look forward to welcoming clinical researchers and specialists in the field, as well as primary care providers who may want to know more about how to evaluate their patients, and to whom to refer them.