The Workshop associated with the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), North Bethesda, MD, October 24-25, 2012 focused on targeting the tumor microenvironment as part of an integrative approach to immune-based cancer therapy.Authors: Melek Erdinc Sunay, Francesco Marincola, Samir N. Khleif, Samuel C. Silverstein, Bernard A. Fox, Jérôme Galon and Leisha A. EmensPublished as a meeting report in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (2013) 1:9.#SITCPublication