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| MECCA Meeting, April 6, 2004 |
A meeting of the Middle East Children's Cancer Association is planned for April 6, 2004. The meeting will be held in Kuwait. |
| Corporate Liaison Committee Meeting on September 8, 2004 |
Corporate Liaison Committee Meeting to be held on September 8, 2004 in Brussels
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| Meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Retinoblastoma Strategy Group on 29th April and 30th April 2004 |
Meeting of the sub-committee of the Retinoblastoma Strategy Group on April 29 & 30, 2004 in Brussels
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| Sub-Committee Meeting of the Breast Cancer Strategy Group on 27th May and 28th, 2004 |
Meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Breast Cancer Strategy Group on 27th May and 28th, 2004 in Brussels
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| Training in Gynaecology Oncology from Nigeria - July 2004-2005 | Dr. Ajenifuja will start a one-year training in Surgical Gyneacology oncology and Preventive Oncology on July 1, 2004 under the supervision of Dr. Tongaonkar. This training, when completed, will assit in the establishment/expansion of programmes relating to detection and treatment of cervical cancer and to train more junior health workers.
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| Cervical Cancer Strategy Group Meeting on August 6 & 7, 2004 | Meeting of the sub-committee of the Cervical Cancer Strategy Group on August 6 & 7, 2004 in Brussels. |
| Burkitt's Lymphoma Project in Africa - Implementation meeting on August 12 & 13, 2004 | Burkitt's Lymphoma Project in Africa - Implementation meeting in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, on August 12 & 13, 2004 |
| Leukemia Project in India - Implementation meeting - July 14, 2004 | Leukemia Project in India - Implementation meeting through videoconference. |
| INCTR Pediatric Oncology Fellowship | Dr. Alia Zaidi, Consultant Pediatric Oncologist, Shaukhat Khanum Memorial Cancer Center Pakistan - Fellowship in the Division of Pediatric/Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University - July 2004 - Sept. 2004 |
| Clinical Trials Workshop in Brazil - 1-3 Sept. 2004 | A workshop entitled "The Value and Conduct of Clinical Trials in Cancer in Latin America" took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 1-3 September. Some 150 oncologists, pharmacists, data managers and nurses participated. A multidisciplinary meeting involving social workers, psychologists and advocates was held simultaneously. Both meetings were well received. More information is available on INCTR Brasil. |
| Annual Meeting 2004, Cairo, 2-5 Oct. | The Annual Meeting took place in Cairo from 2-5 Oct. It included a range of elements - award lectures, keynote lectures, reports, educational presentations, training sessions, a consensus panel discussion on the relative importance of bone marrow transplantation in developing countries, a multidisciplinary conference, and a session on developments in information technology of relevance to low resource countries. The meeting was well attended (over 300 participants from over 40 countries) and feedback was excellent. More information will be provided in the near future on the portal and in the newsletter. |
| Oncology Training in Ouagadougou - November 8-11, 2004 |
Oncology training organized in Burkina Faso by the Health Ministry of Burkina Faso and by AMCC with the collaboration of CRLC and UICC (French-speaking Committee). Main topics are Chemotherapy, Palliative Care and Prevention.
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| INCTR Report on Lymphoma Workshop | A summary of the report on the INCTR workshop on lymphomas, held as part of the Annual Meeting 2003 is now available on-line (click on relevant link on this page). This report is shortly to be published in the journal "Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases." The workshop was supported by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. |
| INCTR Presentation at ESMO Annual Meeting | INCTR participated in a session on cancer in developing countries held at the European Society of Clinical Oncology's Annual Meeting in Vienna. The presentation is available under "Documents/PowerPoint presentations." It is a large file, so may take some time to load. |
| Data Management Training Course, Nov 2004 | A data management training course for data manageres of the Leukemia Study Group of India will take place in the week beginning 15th November. |
| Training for medical and nursing staff at Shaukat Khanum, Pakistan |
1) 10 nurses from Shaukat Khanum will go to the military hospital in Rawalpindi in the first instance.
2) In January 2005, 2 senior nurses from Bart's, namely: Elaine Stewart, who used to be the Ward Sister for the Transplant Unit and has now taken on a 'Clinical Nurse Specialist' role for patients with acute leukaemia, and Claire Murrell, Head of Nursing for Cancer Services (used to be the Transplant Coordinator for our Department) will spend a week at Shaukat Khanum, giving seminars and working alongside your nurses.
3) In March, Ama Rohatiner will stay for 3 days in Lahore to give advice to Medical and Nursing Staff.
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| Latest Newsletter (Summer 2004) in Press - PDF file available | To see the PDF file that will be printed, go to Newsletter/2004/summer |
| Dr. Santos' visit to Santa Cruz Bolivia - Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme | Dr. Santos (Lima, Peru) is going to Santa Cruz, Bolivia to meet with Dr. Claros, Chief of the Cervix Cancer Control Programme on January 22 & 23, 2005. The purpose of the visit is to assess needs and discuss screening techniques. |
| Lymphoma workshop and Cancer Nurses' Meeting in Izmir, Turkey - April 2005 | INCTR (UK) in collaboration with the The Dokuz Eylul University Institute of Oncology will run a Lymphoma Workshop concurrently with a Nurses' Meeting in Çesme, near Izmir, Turkey, 11 - 13 April. The event will take place with the help of the Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC) and, as a result, the audience will comprise Haematologists, Medical Oncologists-in-training and Nurses not only from Turkey, but also from Israel, Egypt, 'Palestine', Jordan and Cyprus. This broad mix will generate interesting discussions about differing approaches to the problems surrounding the care and treatment of cancer.
In October 2003 a similar 3-day event was held in Cairo and proved a great success.
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| FUND RAISING EVENT - RAFFLE OF MERCEDES 230C | |
| INCTR Report 2005 Now Available (see Documents/Reports) | |
| Data Management Training Course, Nov 2005 | A data management training course for data manageres of the African Burkitts Lymphoma Project will take place in the week beginning 7th November 2005. |
| INCTR Annual Meeting 2005, Chennai, Dec 10-13. | |
| INCTR Annual Meeting Report 2005 now available in Document Library | |
| Accessing Reports, PowerPoint Presentations etc. | Please note that when accessing reports or PowerPoint presentations in the document library, you may be asked for a password. If so, try a mouse right click on the item and select "open" or "save" the document. This method may also be quicker when the file is large. Note that a PowerPoint presentation on how to use the portal is available. |
| Pictures from Annual Meeting | Digital pictures from INCTR Annual Meeting 2005 are now available in the picture library. These pictures were arranged by our hosts at the Cancer Institute (WIA), to whom INCTR expresses its sincerest thanks. |
| April 6th 2006: INCTR signs agreement with Ministry of Public Health of Cameroon (see link) | See link |
| Advanced Palliative Care Workshop in Nepal on April 14 & 15, 2006 | |
| Knowledge Transfer Presentation from World Cancer Congress | This presentation is now available in the Members Forum site |
| Photographs of recent (July 31 - Aug 4) trip to Uzbekistan available in Picture Library | |
| Free or low cost access to medical journals | Institutions in countries with a per capita GDP in 2001 of less than $1000 can register to free access, and countries between $1000 and $3000 for low cost access, to a large number of medical journals via the website just added to "Links" |
| Members Forum now offers PowerPoint presentations | |
| HPV Workshop at Institut Pasteur | A workshop on HPV genotyping was held at Institut Pasteur from Sept 11th to 15th 2006. Nine participants came from the Pasteur Network and two from INCTR member institutions in India . Photographs are available in the Picture Library |
| Workshop on Scientific Writing held at the All India Institute for Medical Sciences, August 2006 | More information on the Education Site |
| Student Electives - Tanzania & Pakistan - 2007 | More information on the UK site |
| New PowerPoint presentation on Cancer Control in Africa now in document library | This presentation will be made generally available for a limited time, then moved to the members site. |
| Just Released: Institute of Medicine Report on Cancer Control Opportunities in Low and Middle Income Countries. See Link for more information | Copies of “Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” are available from the National Academies Press. To obtain a copy, call 202-334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242 or visit The National Academies Press. Residents in low-middle- income nations may call the above numbers for a free copy of the report. A complimentary summary of the report can be found at: http://books.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11797.pdf. The media may obtain a copy of the report from the Office of News and Public Information at the numbers listed above. |
 | 2nd International Cancer Control Congress, Rio de Janeiro | The 2nd International Cancer Control Congress, hosted in Rio de Janeiro by the National Cancer Institute of Brazil, Ministry of Health Brazil and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization will take place on 25th to 28th November, 2007: see attached file and link to conference website. |
| Using INCTR's Portal - New Guidelines Available | New guidelines have been placed on the portal in the "Reports" library. There are two versions - one in pdf (click on "Bookmarks" to move around in document - and one in a presentation version. These may take some time to download. A PowerPoint version is available in the PowerPoint folder. |
| New Presentation on Cancer as a Global Heatlh Problem | Available in Members Forum Document Library |
| New Presentation on Cancer in Developing Countries and INCTR Strategy 2008 available | For PowerPoint presentation go to PowerPoint folder in "Reports" library |
| Intercountry meeting on the adoption of the regional cancer control strategy and developing national work plans | The meeting will be held at the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt on 15–18 December 2008.
This meeting will be jointly organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) and the Lalla Salma Association Against Cancer. The meeting will also include a workshop on breast cancer control.
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| BL Strategy Group Meeting & Follow up on Thematic Workshop | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - January 22 & 23, 2008 |
| The next INCTR AGA and Governing Council meeting will be held in Brussels on February 7, 2009 | |
| Presentations from Focused workshop on Breast Cancer Control now available | |
| New reports and announcements on the INCTR Palliative Care Portal | |