The highlights of the 2020 ESMO virtual congress

The year of 2020 brought unexpected challenges to the healthcare systems all around the globe. Every country had to reorganise their medical priorities to face the COVID19 pandemic. The practice of virtual medicine has expanded in the past years, these new circumstances have increased its speed drastically. Within these unusual circumstances we could take part in the virtual congress of the ESMO 2020 where we were able to hear about the new results of oncology to provide up-to-date care for our patients. Compared to the past years, we did not learn too many breakthrough results, the most of the novelties helped us place our experiences to their ideal place in patient care. The investigations which examined the SARS-CoV2 virus effects on oncologic patients showed grave results, the infection increases the vulnerability and mortality of patients receiving active anticancer therapies or suffering from an active cancer.