UICC Meeting
INCTR had a stand at the UICC Cancer Congress last June in Oslo, Norway. Many of the participants stopped by to hear about INCTR's work, and many of them expressed an interest in becoming associate members or participating in INCTR activities.

AMCC Governing Council
A meeting of the Governing Council of the AMCC-INCTR's branch in France took place July 17, 2002 at the INCTR Offices in Brussels. The members of the Governing Council are: Guy de Thé, President; Jean Content, Vice President; Louis Schoofs, Treasurer; and Ian Magrath, General Secretary. The AMCC will focus its efforts on cancers in women and children in developing countries, particularly in Africa.

ACCP Meeting
At the July 2002 Steering Committee meeting held in Lyon, France, the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention invited several outside organizations to participate in discussion on the work they were doing together and to suggest ways in which their collaborative work could be extended. Paul Van Look outlined various areas in which ACCP could collaborate with WHO in studies, writing papers, and sponsoring meetings. Helène Sancho-Garnier emphasized that UICC would like to be kept informed of ACCP's work. Ian Magrath suggested ACCP could work more in parallel with the INCTR. Indeed, a fruitful collaboration is underway between the International Associations for Cancer Research and the INCTR in the field of cervical cancer prevention. Projects have been initiated at three sites in Nepal and a fourth site is shortly to be established in Tanzania.

INCTR's Palliative Care Initiative
Initial discussions took place on this topic at the INCTR annual meeting in Brussels in May. Taking advantage of several members of that initial group being present in London on holiday in August, INCTR called a subsequent meeting at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Robert Twycross, Emeritus Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine at Oxford University, was kind enough to attend and give advice. Dr Twycross agreed that INCTR was in a unique position to promote palliative care through its numerous collaborating sites.

INCTR's major role would be to assist in the establishment of palliative care programs through the provision of education and training of local medical and nursing staff and other health workers. Hence, the program would be coordinated through a subcommittee of the Education Committee to be chaired by Dr Stuart Brown. After considerable discussion it was decided that, as a first step, the cancer centers in Nepal should be contacted and the possibilities of such an initiative explored. An exploratory visit is being planned.

Mark Your Calendars
The Annual Meeting of the INCTR is planned for May 29–31, 2003, to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Brussels. The program will include the INCTR Award Lectures, Leukemias and Lymphomas, Late Effects and New Technologies. There will be a poster session accompanied by brief oral presentations on selected posters.

The call for abstracts for the Poster and Oral Presentation Session will be announced in November 2002.
For the most current information about Annual Meeting 2003, visit our web site at www.inctr.org, or e-mail edupont@inctr.be or bene@inctr.be.

Thanks To Staff Volunteers
INCTR is grateful for the valuable help provided by our team of volunteers. Caroline Houard is in charge of mailing our Network Newsletter. The last edition was sent to 400 recipients around the world. Sandra Jackson has assisted in the organization of exchange visits—a component of INCTR's educational programme. Hilary Wallace has provided help in updating our fundraising database. Lorena Jimenez joined us for a short period in the Clinical Trials Office whilst Mieke Gees, a secretarial student, worked in the main office helping to reorganize archives and files during her summer break. Thanks to all of them!