Dr. William G. “Bill” Woods, age 77, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in Atlanta, GA.
Beginning of a hopeful journey: towards curing childhood cancer
Hi everyone! I’m Gemma, I’m a YI Board member and co-chair of the Blog working committee. Today I’m delighted to introduce Dr Huma Faiz Halepota a surgeon from Pakistan and a new YI committee member. Here’s what Huma has to say about the Paediatric Onco-surgical difficulties faced in Pakistan.
News@SIOP – December 2017 – PPO
Dear SIOP members, This year marks 10 fulfilling years of Pediatric Psycho-Oncology (SIOP-PPO) accomplishments. The PPO meeting in Washington DC in October was very well attended and included state-of the art sessions on ‘Survivorship’, ‘PROs in research and clinical practice’, ‘Implementing psychosocial standards of care’, ‘Fertility’, and ‘Innovative interventions’. Thanks to the SIOP board […]
News@SIOP – September 2019 – Young Investigators
News@SIOP – December 2017 – Nursing Group
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 […]
News@SIOP – December 2017 – PODC
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 […]
News@SIOP – December 2017 – Advocacy
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 […]
News@SIOP – December 2017 – Asia
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 […]