The
World Cancer Congress brings together the global cancer community.
Clinicians, practitioners, government agencies
and NGOs, patient-care providers and advocates, researchers
and behavioural scientists and public health experts focus
on transforming the latest knowledge into strategies that
countries, communities, institutions and individuals can
employ to reduce the cancer burden.
The objectives of the congress include:
- Translating scientific and behavioural research into relevant
prevention, early detection, treatment, psychosocial support,
palliative care, etc.
- Understanding the economic implications of cancer control
interventions in both developed and developing settings
and determining which interventions produce the best results
- Promoting the development of national cancer plans as
building blocks of a comprehensive anti-cancer strategy
worldwide
- Stimulating capacity-building among UICC member organizations
and cancer NGOs
- Strategic planning and sharing and exchanging best practices
- Implementing effective tobacco control and public health
programmes
- Engaging donor organizations in cancer control effort
- Developing north south partnerships
The first International Cancer Congress was held in Madrid
in 1933. It led to the foundation of the International Union
Against Cancer (UICC) in 1935.
Since 2006, the World Cancer Congress takes place every
other year.
CHRONOLOGY
| 21st |
BEIJING, China |
August 18-21, 2010 |
| 20th |
GENEVA, Switzerland |
August 27-31, 2008 |
| 19th |
WASHINGTON, U.S.A. |
July 8-12, 2006 |
| 18th |
OSLO, Norway |
June 30 - July 4, 2002 |
| 17th |
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil |
August 1998 |
| 16th |
NEW DELHI, India |
October-November 1994 |
| 15th |
HAMBURG, Germany |
August 1990 |
| 14th |
BUDAPEST, Hungary |
September 1986 |
| 13th |
SEATTLE, U.S.A. |
October 1982 |
| 12th |
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina |
October 1978 |
| 11th |
FLORENCE, Italy |
May 1974 |
| 10th |
HOUSTON, U.S.A. |
October 1970 |
| 9th |
TOKYO, Japan |
July 1966 |
| 8th |
MOSCOW, Russia |
July 1962 |
| 7th |
LONDON, U.K. |
July 1958 |
| 6th |
SAO PAULO, Brazil |
July 1954 |
| 5th |
PARIS, France |
September 1950 |
| 4th |
ST. LOUIS, U.S.A |
September 1947 |
| 3rd |
ATLANTIC CITY, U.S.A. |
September 1939 |
| 2nd |
BRUSSELS, Belgium |
September 1936 |
| 1st |
MADRID, Spain |
October 1933 |
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