Annual Report 05 - International Union Against Cancer

Connecting, mobilizing, supporting
Offering strong support
The George Washington
Cancer Institute in
Washington DC takes a comprehensive
approach to a complex
disease, providing a confluence of
groundbreaking biomedical and clinical
research, high quality educational
programmes, outstanding patient
care to the entire metropolitan
Washington area, and effective outreach
to the community. The CIHR
Institute of Cancer Research,
Canada, fosters research, based on
internationally accepted standards of
excellence that bears on preventing
and treating cancer and improving
the health and quality of life of cancer
patients. Both institutes joined
the UICC in 2008.
Other new members included cancer
societies from Chile, Kyrgyzstan,
Niger, Mali, Romania and Ukraine;
hospitals from Argentina, Canada,
India, Iran and Tanzania; the
Ministry of Health, Indonesia; the
Philippine Society of Paediatric
Oncology; and regional and international
bodies such as the African
Organization of Research and
Treatment Centres (AORTIC), the
European CanCer Organization
(ECCO) and the International Brain
Tumour Alliance. One of the
UICC’s special features is the
involvement of ministries of health
and other cancer control institutions
that set out national policy frameworks
and play a leading role in
health systems reform.
UICC members benefited from
specially advantageous rates to attend
or exhibit at the World Cancer
Congress. Member organizations also
profited from increased support for
training and education, auspices for
scientific conferences and publications,
workshops, dissemination of
information via websites, and participation
in taskforces. To deepen communication
with and between members,
UICC publications are ordinarily
available in French and Spanish as
well as English; with the help of
members, they are often translated
into other languages, such as Arabic,
Chinese, or Hebrew as well.
What new members
expect
AORTIC
Network and share information
with other institutions
active in cancer control
CIHR Institute of Cancer
Research, Canada
Be part of a global community
in the fight against cancer,
share experience, adapt advocacy
tools to mobilize our
national audience, and get
political support
ECCO
Contribute to UICC initiatives,
in particular actions to follow
up on the World Cancer
Declaration
Ministry of Health, Indonesia
Be involved in international
cancer control, make use of
opportunities to improve
knowledge and skills
UICC fund makes awards to 20 projects and study tours
The UICC cancer capacity-building
fund, launched in 2007, supports
member organizations in resourceconstrained
countries in reaching out
to their communities.
The project theme for 2008 was
promotion of tobacco prevention
activities related to the “I love my
smoke-free childhood” campaign.
Out of 51 applications submitted, the
review committee approved 18 projects
for activities and 2 applications
for small grants to finance study tours.
Details of the awards are available on
the UICC website: www.uicc.org/ cancerfund.
The fund was established with
funds from countries implementing
Relay For Life, an event licensed and
supported through training and technical
assistance by the American
Cancer Society, a UICC member
organization. A second call for projects
was launched in September
2008.
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Offering strong support