We are delighted to give an overview of our speakers for our 5th SIOP YI Education day, which will be held on Wednesday 23rd October 2019. The theme for our first session is careers and is titled “Failure is Success in Progress”. Our first speaker is  Professor Kathy Pritchard Jones who is doing our careers [...]

The heart of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) is the annual conference where we have the opportunity to meet, share, marvel and learn together. The Nursing Steering Committee has started to plan the programme for the 50th Congress of SIOP, in collaboration with the nurse representatives from the local organizing committee. We hope […]

SIOP PODC members enjoyed a varied programme at the annual SIOP meeting which was held in Washington from October 12 to 15. We welcomed our new co-chair Sandra Luna-Fineman, and there are now 11 working groups and 3 task forces, with over 1300 working group members from 92 countries. Both the PROS LMIC Task Force […]

Summary SIOP Global Advocacy works closely with the SIOP executive board, SIOP PODC, SIOP continental branches, CCI and global NGOs to advocate for children and adolescents with cancer and their families around the world. We take part in WHO activities related to child health dedicated to childhood cancer and are the voice at WHO working […]

The 11th SIOP Asia Congress was successfully held in May 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Asia SIOP was held on 13 October 2017 at Washington DC. A total of 30 SIOP Asia members attended the meeting and 3 CCI members were also present. Since the 50th SIOP Congress will be […]

A meeting of SIOP Africa members was held in Washington on 13th October 2017 during the International Congress. It was well attended. Laila Hessissen, SIOP Africa Continental President-elect, was introduced at the meeting. Prof. Elhamy Rifky revealed further details of SIOP Africa 2019. It will be held in Cairo from 6th – 9th March 2019. […]

We are very happy about the success of the recent 49th SIOP Congress in Washington D.C.  The meeting was very well received with a number of outstanding Keynote Talks, Symposia, and Meet-the-Expert sessions, along with more than two dozen free paper sessions.  Unfortunately the Poster and Poster Discussion Sessions were much less successful.  This has […]

Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of SIOP Dear friends, The 49th Congress of SIOP2017 held in Washington DC in October, 2017, under the chair of Prof. Jeff Dome was a fantastic meeting and very well organized. The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of SIOP2018 has learned a lot from the congress, and we will try to [...]