Registration now open
This early bird rate is available now to an unlimited number of participants from each UICC member organisation. Members pay USD 490 instead of USD 780 for early bird registrations. You can also register a whole group and provide the participants names in due course. UICC Members also benefit from the privileged opportunity to have an exhibit in the heart of the Global Village, at a discounted rate. Prime space is available on a first come first served basis.
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Session topics have been announced for each track, ahead of the preliminary programme, which will be released on 9 January 2012. Below is just a snapshot of what participants can expect, but there will be many more to come.
Session topics in track 1, Prevention and early detection (including tobacco control), feature presentations on digital media in cancer prevention and tobacco control, countering the tobacco industry, diet, plain packaging, physical activity and cancer risk, cervical cancer prevention and screening.
Session topics in track 2, Cancer care and survivorship, include presentations on the cost of cancer, improving the patient journey, telepathology, oncogeriatrics, international responses to cancer survivorship.
Session topics in track 3, Palliation and pain control, feature presentations on global access to pain relief, international efforts in palliative care, advances in cancer pain assessment and management, strategies for improving global palliative care, pain relief as a human right, paediatric cancer pain.
Session topics in track 4, Systems in cancer control, include presentations on the global surveillance of survival, partnerships for prevention, cancer registration in low- and middle-income countries, advocacy for cancer control, legal strategies in cancer control.
On 9 January, you will also have the opportunity to submit your abstract online, which, upon acceptance, may give you the chance to present it in a poster plenary, oral session or poster presentation. Travel Grant applications will open simultaneously. All details and the list of topics are available online.
The Congress will offer a chance to hear some eminent plenary speakers such as Sir George Alleyne, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region; Dr Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and 2009 Nobel Prize winner for her work on Telomerase; as well as Dr Haik Nikogosian, Head of the Convention Secretariat, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
