Award Lectures Slated for Annual Meeting

Two distinguished cancer professionals have been selected to present Award Lectures on the opening day of the INCTR annual meeting on cancer control in developing countries. The award lectures were established to honor people who have made outstanding contributions to treating cancer in developing countries.

Dr V Shanta, Chairman, Cancer Institute (W.I.A.), Chennai, India, will give an address titled "My Encounter with Cancer." Dr Shanta, whose medical career spans five decades, helped to build one of the largest, most comprehensive cancer centers in India.

Dr John L. Ziegler, from University of California at San Franciso Cancer Center, USA, will discuss "Clinical Research in Uganda: Partnerships in Progress." Ziegler spent five years in Africa, working on Burkitt's lymphoma.

The thematic focus of this year's annual meeting includes the epidemiology of cancers of particular importance in specific geographic regions, the supportive and palliative care of cancer, and breast cancer, the most common cancer in women in the world.

The meeting is set for May 29 – June 1 at the Hilton Hotel in Brussels.

On the day preceding the conference, INCTR strategy group and committee meetings will be held, during which new and ongoing programs and projects will be discussed. New strategy groups, that will meet for the first time, will be formed to develop programs in breast cancer, cervical cancer and lymphoma. The latter will be initially focused on Burkitt's lymphoma in equatorial Africa, and will include representatives from other organizations that are interested in participating.

Those who wish to attend the annual meeting, but who have not yet registered, are urged to do so by March 1. A registration form is available on the web site at www.inctr.org.