IAEA Meeting

INCTR staff participated in a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency and representatives from participating developing countries in Vienna (from Feb 19th to 22nd) to discuss the implementation of a joint project in the treatment of breast cancer, with resource-sparing as an objective.


SIOP Meeting in Marrakech

INCTR was represented at the African regional meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Oncology. One of the outcomes was a decision to explore how the two societies might work together to improve the management of Wilms’ tumor in selected countries.


ACS Annual Meeting

Dr. Magrath attended the American Cancer Society’s biannual meeting in Washington (Jan 26th to 31st) to present the case for focusing more efforts on cancer in developing countries and to describe some of INCTR’s programs. ACS and INCTR will continue to explore ways in which the two organizations can work together.

INCTR staff with Drs. Julius Lecciones and Twalib Ngoma in Paris for the meeting on February 1st after the inauguration.

Sanofi-aventis/UICC Meeting in Paris

INCTR staff members participated in a meeting held at Sanofi-Aventis headquarters to discuss the My Child Matters program, sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis and managed by UICC. This involves 14 projects in pediatric cancer in ten developing countries. INCTR is a mentoring organization for four of them. The program was launched via a ceremony held at the Musée André Jacquemart in Paris on January 31st at which the principle investigators briefly described their projects.


Annual General Assembly and Governing Council Meeting

INCTR’s AGM and GCM took place on March 11th at the Brussels offices.


Meeting with ACS’s International Program Staff