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Posted 7 December 2011
Dr. Luigi Grassi will represent IPOS at the European Partnership for Action Against Cancer meeting on symptom assessment, classification and management within palliative care, 26 - 27 January 2012, in Milan, Italy.
Posted 16 November 2011
Deadline for Spring 2012 selection for the UICC Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grants is 15 January 2012
UICC Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grants (YY) are generously funded by the Japan National Committee for UICC and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd., Japan. Click here for more information.
Posted 15 November 2011
IPOS at World Cancer Leaders' Summit in Dublin, Ireland Friday, 18 November 2011
First organized in 2006 and now held annually, the Summit is a high-level meeting attended by leading decision makers which aims to influence international health policy and secure a strategic response to the global cancer epidemic. Approximately 200 high-level participants are expected to attend, including Heads of State, Ministers of Health, UN officials, international cancer leaders and private sector partners. Maggie Watson PhD will be representing IPOS as its President.
Click here to see the event website.
Click here to see the slides promoting the Standards and Clinical Practice Guidelines in Cancer Care.
Posted 3 November 2011
1st Francophone Palliative Care Initiators’ Course for Africa
This 5-week course will be held 2 April - 4 May 2012 at CBC Health Services
Complex in
Mutengene, Cameroon. The course is designed to help
health professionals initiate
culturally appropriate Palliative
Care Services in Francophone Africa. Read more...
Posted 25 October 2011
IPOS at EiO
2012
Professor and Past IPOS President, Bill Breitbart, will represent IPOS as a speaker at the Excellence in Oncology conference to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, in February 2012. More information about the conference is available at www.excellence-in-oncology.org.
Posted 24 October 2011
IPOS Member Featured in ASCO Magazine
IPOS Member, Antonella Surbone, was recently featured in the ASCO Connection article, "Psycho-oncology: A Mental Health Priority for Patients, Families," in which Dr. Surbone emphasizes the impact cancer makes upon the entire family of a cancer patient.
Posted 24 October 2011
IPOS congratulates its 2011 Award recipients!
See the Awards Information page for more information.
Posted 22 September 2011
CoC Release New Cancer Program Standards 2012
The Commission on Cancer announced the formal release of the Cancer Program Standards 2012: Ensuring Patient-Centered Care.
These standards, scheduled for implementation in 2012, ensure that key elements of quality cancer care are provided to every person with cancer treated in a CoC-accredited facility throughout their diagnosis and treatment process, including psychosocial support, care for cancer-related pain, palliative care, and hospice care. These standards also challenge cancer programs to enhance the care they provide by addressing patient-centered needs and measuring the quality of the care they deliver against national standards. Both areas are critical components of quality cancer care. Information about the standards, including soon-to-be-released resources to support them, can be found on the CoC Web site at: http://www.facs.org/cancer/coc/cps2011.html
Posted 25 August 2011
ASCO Post Announcement
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) placed a notice in the 1 September 2011 issue of The ASCO Post about the special issue of Psycho-Oncology and making Distress the sixth vital sign.
Posted 29 June 2011
IPOS President Invited to WCLS
The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and its partners, the Irish Cancer Society, the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization have extended an official invitation to Maggie Watson, IPOS President, to attend the 2011 World Cancer Leaders’ Summit to be held on November 18 in Dublin, Ireland. First organised in 2006 and now held annually, the Summit is a high-level meeting attended by leading decision makers which aims to influence international health policy and secure a strategic response to the global cancer epidemic. Approximately 200 high-level participants are expected to attend, including Heads of State, Ministers of Health, UN officials, international cancer leaders and private sector partners. Dr. Watson has gladly accepted the invitation.
Posted 22 April 2011
AORTIC Preconference Workshop
IPOS is organizing a workshop on Psycho-Oncology specifically designed for professionals in Africa. The workshop, which will feature Drs. David Kissane, David Payne and Jimmie Holland will be held on Tuesday, 29 November 2011, in Cairo, Egypt in conjunction with the 2011 AORTIC Conference, which also includes a full-day focused on palliative care on Friday, 2 December 2011. IPOS is providing 25 scholarships, which have been funded by Open Society Institute and Grace Cahan.
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