An international Symposium on Integrative Molecular Cancer Epidemiology took place in Lyon, France, on 3rd-5th July 2008. The Symposium focused on aetiologic and mechanistic aspects of molecular and genetic cancer epidemiology research and was divided into three following sections: 1) Molecular epidemiology – Application of novel molecular markers to cancer epidemiology 2) Genomic epidemiology in the era of whole genome scan 3) Integrative molecular epidemiology – Visions for the future. Participants included epidemiologists, geneticists, biochemical and molecular biologists, pharmacologists, pathologists and all researchers interested in this field. The Symposium was very useful to provide a complete and clear overview of the present and future of molecular cancer epidemiology. It was also useful both to encourage international scientific collaboration between investigators working in this specific research field, and to stimulate transdisciplinary research with experts of other research areas. Highlights of each of the scientific presentations are summarised below.

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