Annual report 2017

OTHER ONCOLOGY SOCIETIES

Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs)

• ESTRO and the American Association of Physicists inMedicine (AAPM) collaboration on science, including joint symposia, guidelines, education, professional awareness and student exchange programmes • ESTRO, the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) and the European Society of Pathology (ESP) collaboration on cervical cancer guidelines.

World Cancer Research Day

ESTRO supported World Cancer Research Day on 24 September 2017, a global action to support research on cancer, which is promoted by a number of major oncology partners. Communication material was produced to highlight the importance of research in cancer, and our members shared photos and videos via social media, explaining and demonstrating their engagement in research.

European CanCer Organisation (ECCO)

ECCO held its board elections in 2017. An ESTRO representative has been elected.

ESTRO experts are represented on the following ECCO working groups: • Integration of primary care and secondary care in the cancer care continuum • Melanoma and oesophago-gastric cancer • Breast cancer • Prostate cancer.

Under the aegis of ECCO, and led by Professor Yolande Lievens, ESTRO President, a working group on value-based healthcare has been established, focusing on the applicability of existing value frameworks in the pharmaceutical sector towards non-systemic oncology treatment (e.g. radiation oncology and surgery). ESTRO experts are involved. An initial paper of the project’s early conclusions and recommendations will be published in 2018, and will be discussed at the ECCO 2018 European Cancer Summit in Vienna, Austria, in September 2018.

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