World Cancer Congress
The UICC sponsors a biannual World Cancer Congress that brings together the world's leaders in the fight to control cancer. Leading clinicians, practitioners, government agencies and NGO's, patient-care providers and advocates, researchers and behavioural scientists and public health experts focus on transforming the latest knowledge into strategies that countries, communities, institutions and individuals can employ to reduce the cancer burden. The World Cancer Congress has five tracks:
- Cancer research detection and treatment
- Public health, prevention and education
- Survivorship and supportive care
- Building capacity in cancer organizations
- Tobacco and cancer
The next World Cancer Congress will take place in Montreal, Canada in 2012 .
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