ASCO Abstract Preview: ImClone, Genentech

In order to help prepare for the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, better known as ASCO, I've compiled a cheat sheet of significant cancer research abstracts.

Use these abstract numbers and titles to search the ASCO Web site on May 15, starting at 9 p.m. EDT. That's when the cancer research group will be posting the full content of the annual meeting research abstracts online.

This is the first time ASCO has made research abstracts freely available to everyone in advance of its annual meeting, which runs May 31 through June 3. In years past, of course, many of these abstracts, often containing important and potentially market-moving clinical data, have leaked to well-connected Wall Street investors and traders.

That has led to volatile trading in cancer-related biotech stocks in advance of the ASCO meeting. Whether trading volatility ramps up or down this year with abstracts available to everyone remains to be seen. With the list I've put together, however, you should be ready. ...