Dear SIOP Members,

Please take a few minutes to see the variety of activities offered last month as well as a few updates and opportunities. Many thanks go to the 300+ SIOP leaders who worked in various Networks, WGs, Committees and Continental Branches to offer the activities

Highlights

• Members loved the diversity of our programs and activities — 400 attended at least one webinar in April 2026.

Updates on the Initiatives across the Society

• The SIOP Women Leaders Network released the full 2026 SIOP Almanac of Women Leaders in Paediatric Oncology.
• The SIOP SCN Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine WG held a webinar on “The Value of Palliative Rehabilitation for Children with Cancer” in collaboration with St Jude Global in Apr 2026.
• The GHN AI WG held a webinar on “AI Solutions for Pathology in Pediatric Oncology” in Apr 2026.
• The SIOP Nursing Network is announcing a call for QI Nurse Scholars applications. Two separate Cohorts will be launched this year: one for Spanish Language SIOP nurses and an English language Cohort.
• SIOP GHN PROS WG and partners held an educational webinar on “Radiotherapy for Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor” in Apr 2026.
• The Young SIOP Network received many applications for the Rising Star Award and reviews are under way.
• The SIOP Nursing Network held a webinar on “SIOP 2025 Top Abstracts: Spotlighting Nursing Scholarship in Childhood Cancer Care” featuring the four top nursing abstracts from the SIOP 2025 Congress; it also held a meeting for nurses interested in transition, early and late survivorship.
• The SIOP Advocacy Cmt has revised its TOR which was approved by the Governance Committee.
• The SIOP Scientific Cmt is scoring the many abstracts submitted for the Annual Congress and working on the Congress Program.

Updates from the SIOP Continental Branches

• SIOP Asia:
  • Rising Star-Asia: The applications period opened and the deadline is May 25, 2026.
  • SIOP Asia 2026 Congress in Mongolia received 300+ abstracts; please register before June 15.
  • The next round of SIOP Asia Meet-ups will take place in July 2026; host offers are welcome.
  • Most of the SIOP Asia Ambassadors completed their first year of leadership and are submitting their annual reports for the impactful work. SIOP Asia considers applications for new ambassadors on a rolling basis – please apply.
• SIOP Europe: their 2026 Congress was just completed in Glasgow, UK.
• SIOP Africa: 
  • The SIOP Africa 2026 Congress in Nigeria was held April 13-17, 2026. The Congress was well attended and very successful. Prof. Dr. Lorna Awo Renner was awarded with Life-time achievemnet award. The award was given at the SIOP Africa 2026 Congress. Rising Star-Africa Award was given to Zimbwe Kauke from Tanzania.
  • SIOP Africa offered a series of educational webinars on various types of childhood cancer in this period.
• SIOP North America and SLAOP have prepared a 2-day pre-Congress program; registration is now open here; additional fees apply. The recruitment of the SIOP North America Treasurer is under way.
  • A webinar, in collaboration with ASPHO, was held on “Patient Care and Cancer Registration among Displaced Populations: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina”
• SIOP Oceania opened nominations for two leadership positions: Young Siop Representative for Oceania and Advocacy Cmt Representative for Oceania.

Open SIOP Leadership Opportunities:

• There are multiple leadership opportunities across SIOP; thanks for promoting these opportunities through your networks.

Thank you to the many leaders across SIOP who put in time and energy in developing activities for our members!

Warm regards,

SIOP Secretariat