Ancillary meetings that take place prior to the start of the Congress are listed hereafter. Check back for updated events as they are confirmed.

All medical students and nursing students are invited to join a Forum that will provide a place to learn, share and discuss ideas with leading experts in oncology. This Forum will take place on Thursday and Friday mornings (see agendas hereafter) and participants can join the main congress sessions in the afternoon. Also, congress delegate who are interested in joining a stimulating session are free to participate. The programme has been developed in collaboration with the European School of Oncology and is chaired by Prof. Nicholas Pavlidis (Ioannina, Greece).

• Dates: Thursday 28 and Friday 29 August from 09:00 to 12:00 (including free access to the congress sessions in the afternoons)
• Location: Geneva Palexpo - room H - 120 people capacity
• Number of hours: 6 hours
• Registration fee: 180 CHF which includes access to the forum, the congress sessions of Thursday and Friday afternoon, 2 lunches and the Final programme (no congress bags).

Places are limited to 80 - Click here to sign-up now and avoid waitlists

Thursday 28 August 2008


Friday 29 August 2008

A cancer information service (CIS) provides accurate and up-to-date information to cancer patients, their families and friends, health-care professionals, and the public. It is defined as a one-on-one interaction between a client and a specially trained information specialist. A CIS provides high-quality, personalized interactions by telephone, email, or in person.

This pre-conference workshop is presented by the International Cancer Information Service Group (ICISG) in collaboration with UICC. The ICISG is an organization composed of more than 45 member organizations from 30+ countries that provides assistance to cancer organizations interested in implementing or expanding cancer information services.

The objective of this workshop is to present a basic framework and key elements of a successful CIS based on worldwide experience. The workshop is designed for organizations interested in starting a cancer information service or enhancing an existing one.

Using presentations, case studies and discussions, the topics of the workshops will include:

The American Cancer Society (ACS) will hold an ACS University (ACSU) on August 23 & 24, 2008 in Geneva immediately preceding the UICC World Cancer Congress.

The ACSU is in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and will include participants from NGOs in the six PACT countries of Albania, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Yemen. Training modules include advocacy, recruiting and working with volunteers, and collaboration skills.

Following the ACSU, the ACS and the IAEA will conduct a Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) Forum on August 25 & 26 with the six countries. The CCC Forum will assist the participating PACT countries in initiating or enhancing comprehensive cancer control planning activities in their respective countries. Country teams will include representatives from government and non-governmental organizations. The primary outcomes of the Comprehensive Cancer Control Forum include clear and improved understanding of the concept of comprehensive cancer control planning and its key components, an action agenda for starting or enhancing the comprehensive cancer control planning activity in each country, and completed evaluations on the effectiveness of the Forum as an approach for enhancing national comprehensive cancer control planning activities.

Participation in these events is by invitation only.

Sponsored by Global Dialogue for Effective Stop Smoking Campaigns and UICC
Monday, August 25 & Tuesday, August 26
John Knox Protestant Center, Geneva, Switzerland

Announcement of a 2-day UICC World Cancer Congress Pre-Conference Workshop on "Developing Effective Tobacco Control Public Education Campaigns"

All UICC World Cancer Congress conference participants interested in tobacco control campaigns are invited to register for a 2-day workshop on organizing public education campaigns on August 25-26, 2008 immediately preceding the Congress. This workshop is being co-sponsored by UICC and the Global Dialogue for Effective Stop Smoking Campaigns initiative.

This workshop will include international lessons learned from public education/mass media campaigns, presentations from country campaign managers of successful campaigns, interactive exercises on strategic planning and working with the news media, and useful resources for promoting smokefree campaigns particularly for children. Materials and information to be distributed include the UICC report on protecting children from secondhand smoke, a comprehensive campaign development toolkit, and tips on using GLOBALink and other free online tools to develop online campaigns. Attached is a tentative agenda. A final agenda will be sent as soon as possible.

The workshop is being offered to you at no cost but as space is limited to 60 people, registration is required.

If you are planning to attend the UICC World Cancer Congress, please consider registering for this free workshop (see registration link below). Online registrations will be accepted until the 60-person limit is reached.

The workshop will be held at the John Knox Center, Grand-Saconnex, in Geneva which is located near the WHO office and is a 20-minute nice walk from the Congress hotel (Crowne Plaza).

Register now for the campaign development workshop: click here.

Tentative agenda

Sunday, August 24 2008

• 14:00-18:00 Registration John Knox Center
• 19:00-22:00 Welcome dinner

Monday, August 25 2008

• 08:00-09:00 Workshop Sign-In and Continental Breakfast
• 09:00-09:15 Welcome. Goal and Objectives of the Workshop
  00:00-00:00 Wayne Kao
• 09:15-09:30 UICC World Cancer Campaign- I Love My Smoke Free Childhood
  00:00-00:00 Isabel Mortara. Executive Director - International Union Against Cancer
• 09:30-10:30 Using GLOBALink as a Campaign Tool ? Tobacco Control Research Updates, Forums, Localinks, Multi-lingual Tobacco Control Newsletters, Networking and Mobilization
  00:00-00:00 Wayne Kao, Harold Colomes (GLOBALink team)
• 10:30-10:45 Break
• 10:45-11:15 Online Activism - Using Internet for advocacy and campaigns ? Lessons from other Gross-Root Movements
  00:00-00:00 Sunil Abraham (Mahiti Infotech)
• 11:15-12:30 Telling Tobacco Control Stories and Experiences to the Whole World ? Tobacco Control Blogging Alliance
  00:00-00:00 Philippe Boucher (African tobacco control blogging coordinator)
• 12:30-13:30 Lunch
• 13:30-15:15 Children and women exposure to secondhand smoke. An international study for evidence-empowered campaigns
  00:00-00:00 Erika Avila Tang (Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
• 15:15-15:30 Break
• 15:30-16:30 Lessons Learned from countries in online tobacco control campaigns
• 16:30-17:15 WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008 - Mpower Package
  00:00-00:00 Douglas Bettcher (TFI WHO)
• 17:15-18:15 Discussion
• 18:30-21:00 Dinner

Tuesday, August 26 2008

• 08:00-09:00 Workshop Sign-In and Continental Breakfast
• 09:00-09:15 Introduction
  00:00-00:00 Karen K. Gutierrez(Global Dialogue for Effective Stop Smoking Campaigns)
• 09:15-10:30 Lessons Learned from Tobacco Control Marketing Campaigns around the World
• 10:30-10:45 Break
• 10:45-11:15 Overview and Distribution of Campaign Development Tool Kit
• 11:15-12:30 Interactive Exercise: Communicating Effectively with the News Media
• 12:30-13:30 Lunch
• 13:30-15:15 Smoke-free Public Places Campaign in Israel
  00:00-00:00 Miri Ziv (Israel Cancer Association)
• 13:30-15:15 Mass Media Public Education Campaigns in India
  00:00-00:00 YK Sapru (Cancer Patients Aid Association)
• 13:30-15:15 Stop Smoking Campaign and Graphic Cigarette Pack Warnings
  00:00-00:00 Mariana Pinho (Brasil's National Cancer Institute)
• 15:15-15:30 Break
• 15:30-16:30 Strategic Planning Exercise
• 16:30-17:15 Discussion of highest potential campaign strategies for participants' countries and how to better network
• 17:15-17:30 Wrap up and next steps