AORTIC 2009 Conference

The AORTIC 2009 conference that was held recently in Dar Es Salaam, attracted over 700 delegates – the vast majority from 34 of the 52 countries in Africa. Other participants and speakers were from the USA, UK, Canada, India, Brazil, Europe and Qatar. We had a live Laprascopic Radical Hysterectomy surgical workshop which was performed at the Muhimbili Hospital, 5 pre-conference workshops, 5 Meet the Experts sessions, 6 Key Note Lectures and 6 Plenaries that were all simultaneously translated into French, 10 one and a half hour workshops and 10 three hour workshops. The conference addressed the issues of National Cancer Control programmes, Palliative Care, Oncology Nursing, HPV vaccines, Cancer Biology, Paediatric Oncology, AIDs related malignancies, Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy in low resource settings, Psyco-social aspects of cancer and Paediatric Oncology, among others. Site specific cancers included Cancer of the Cervix, Breast, Prostate and other Urological cancers, Haematological Cancers, Cancer of the Oesophagus and Tobacco related Cancers, inter alia. A key note lecture by Dr Max Parkin and a 3 hour workshop was dedicated to Cancer Registries.

For the detailed programme please click here.

We received 370 submitted abstracts, of which 72 were selected for oral presentation by a peer review committee using a rigorous scoring system.

Click here for the Abstract book.

The conference was designed to give both depth and breadth to all subjects and sufficient time and space for participants to interact with the speakers and one another during sessions. There was in addition time given for networking over teas, lunches and evening social events.

For the list of delegates and their countries of origin please click here.

The next AORTIC conference will be held in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011. We look forward to welcoming you there!

Please revisit our website regularly for more information.

African Society for Gynaecologic Endoscopy Congress

The African Society for Gyanaecologic Endoscopy will be holding its first congress in Yaoundel, Cameroon, from 8 - 12 March 2010.

For more information please visit:
www.afsge2010.org

IGCS 13th Biennial Meeting

The 13th Biennial Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS 2010) will be held from 23-26 October, 2010, in Prague, Czech Republic. For more information please visit: http://www.kenes.com/igcs