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Welcome, PARSGO!

The Pan-Arabian Research Society of Gynecological Oncology (PARSGO) is the newest IGCS Strategic Alliance Partner. PARSGO includes sixty-one members with a professional interest in the prevention, treatment, and research of gynecological cancers from centers across the Arab world. This is the first Strategic Alliance Partnership that includes a multi-country membership in areas where IGCS has typically had a low penetration. PARSGO members are from centers within the following countries: Algeria..

Welcome, Kazakhstan!

It has been such a pleasure over the last year to continue to meet and engage with IGCS members all over the globe. I recently had the honor of traveling to Central Asia to learn more about this beautiful region, the incidence of gynecologic oncology and the opportunity to get to know the wonderful people who live there and their strong affinity to IGCS. Under the leadership of Dilyara Kaidarova MD, PhD, Director of the Kazakh Institute of Oncology and Radiology, Almaty, Kazakhstan a meeting was..

Welcome, China!

We are excited to announce that we are continuing to expand our membership through the Strategic Alliance Partner Program with the addition of China. I am so pleased to welcome our second Strategic Alliance Partner, the Chinese Gynecologic Cancer Society!..

Global Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program

Dear Colleagues,In December 2016, we announced the launch of the Global Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program a comprehensive two-year education and training program designed for regions around the world that do not currently have formal training in gynecologic oncology. As a global society, our mission is to enhance the care of women with gynecologic cancer worldwide through education and training and public awareness. The Global Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program will further this missi..

IGCS: Past, Present, Future

Dear Colleagues, This year in October marks thirty years since the first IGCS Biennial Meeting which was held in Amsterdam October 4-6, 1987. I have been involved with this great society since it was formed all those years ago – I am proud of the work it has done in the past, the present commitment of the leadership and the promise the future holds. IGCS started with 370 attendees at that first meeting and has steadily grown over time. At our most recent Biennial Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal Oc..

Welcome, Belarus!

I am so pleased to welcome our first Strategic Alliance Partner, the Belarus Gynecologic Oncology Division of the Belarusian Society of Oncology! Fifty-one gynecologic oncology, surgeons, specialists, researchers, medical oncologists, and radiation oncologists from cities across the eastern European country of Belarus are now Alliance Members of the IGCS...

Strategic Alliance Partnership

As I reflect on my first year as CEO of IGCS, one of the most rewarding aspects of the position has been the opportunity to meet and hear from members all over the globe. I am motivated and inspired everyday by the growing commitment the membership of IGCS demonstrates toward caring for women with gynecologic cancers. It inspires me and my team members every day to work even harder on your behalf. Strategic Alliance Partner Members of IGCS will include organizations and regions from all over the..

President’s Perspective May 2017

Dear Colleagues, Two months ago, I was privileged to speak at the 2017 meeting of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ (RCOG) in Cape Town about our global curriculum and training programme. At the same meeting, our former President, Lynnette Denny gave a wonderful plenary lecture highlighting the huge health care inequalities between the first and third worlds and emphasised that a diagnosis of cervical cancer, the leading cause of death of women from cancer in emerging coun..

Indian National Gynecologic Cancer Day

March 11th is recognized in India as the National Day of Gynecologic Cancers as endorsed by the Federation of Obstetric & Gynaecological Societies of India, The Association of Gynecologic Oncologists of India, The Association of Radiation Oncologists of India, The Indian Society of Oncology and the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology. This date was chosen as it falls in the same week of International Women's Day (March 8th). Due to the lack of public education and awareness regarding the..

President’s Perspective March 2017

Dear Colleagues, One of the many outstanding benefits of being a member of our Society is access to our professional journal the International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer (IJGC) which is jointly published by IGCS and ESGO. IJGC has allowed us to build a collective knowledge base and play a vital role in the archive of knowledge, and in forming a comprehensive, up-to-date, authoritative body of information. The journal has provided a unique repository for researchers and clinicians in the..