A five-track programme (cancer and prevention control, tobacco control, knowledge transfer, supportive care and capacity building) offers opportunities for exchange of knowledge and ideas and in-depth learning on all aspects of the global fight against cancer. Building on the success of the World Conference for Cancer Organizations in Dublin in 2004 and the World Cancer Congress in Washington, DC, in 2006, the 2008 Geneva Congress will focus on global, regional and national activities in cancer prevention and control, making it a uniquely comprehensive and relevant event for the cancer control community throughout the world.

ADAPTE will be presented and hold a session at the UICC conference.

The International Conference on Systems Science in Health Care was born in 1976 and since then, every four years, it has become a great opportunity to help specialists meet and discuss on an important and actual topic for an efficient management of health care systems. After, Paris, Montréal, Munich, Lyon, Prague, Barcelona, Budapest and Geneva, the conference will be held once more and twenty years later in Lyon , listed World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The theme of the 9th conference is: “New Information Technologies and Governance of Health Care Systems”.

Main theme of this G-I-N Network meeting will be "Implementation in practice".

The meeting will be held in Helsinki and focus on the following potential topics:

• Guidelines in clinical practice - care pathways, house rules, who cares?
• Does Information-Communication Technology help or hinder in implementation - decision aids in practice
• Guidelines and organisation of care – what role do the guidelines play?

The Conference -held in Eilat, Israel- is under the auspices of the EAPC, co-sponsored by NHPCO and endorsed by IAHPC.

"At this Conference, we propose to build a bridge across cultures, to find a common language for both learning and teaching, and to overcome the boundaries between professional disciplines, patients, and families in the ongoing quest to alleviate suffering and grief. We will try to show that suffering is an unequivocal situation with the same characteristics in all cultures, languages, and creeds, indifferent to social standing, age and gender, and that we all need expert professional care to palliate and alleviate pain at all times, especially when curative medicine is no longer effective."

Conference website: www.entersymposium.com/ofakim-pallcare2008

Launch of the ADAPTE manual for guideline adaptation and its resource toolkit along with the ADAPTE evaluation study