Two scientists who pioneered an entirely new way to treat cancer have won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. James Allison at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Tasuku Honjo at Kyoto University in Japan will share the 9 million Swedish kronor (US$1 million) prize. The pair showed how proteins on immune cells ... Read more

Registration is Now Open! Register Now in our Annual International Egyptian Oncology Summit Registration link: https://bit.ly/2Rxv2zd Event's Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/236431236969561/ Read more

We are honored to invite you to attend our the 10th international scientific conference of south Egypt cancer institute –SECI 2018 (Cancer management; steps towards excellence) that will be held in Dusit Thani Lakeview Cairo, Egypt from October 24th–26th,2018. Register Now Registration link: https://bit.ly/2zVuA72 Event's Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/808101709577931/ Read more

Produced and hosted on behalf of the National Cancer Institute, Cairo University Editor-in-Chief: Nadia M. Mokhtar, PhD View Editorial Board Submit Your Paper Open Access View Articles Guide for Authors Abstracting/ Indexing Track Your Paper Journal Metrics CiteScore: 1.13 ℹ Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.611 ℹ SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.403 ℹ View More on Journal Insights Your ... Read more

Egyptian Cancer Society was founded in 1991 as a branch of Egyptian medical association it is an independent non-profit association and does not issue licenses.ECS has dependably carried the mission of coordinating professional and medical issues among its individuals and partners through our constant meetings and discussions. The Society is concerned with the present advancement in cancer prevention, diagnosis and ... Read more

Clinicians around the world are using Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) to treat nearly every type of solid tumor. IMRT "paints" the radiation dose onto the tumor with pinpoint precision. It uses 3-D scans of your body to guide the beams of radiation to the tumor from many different angles. At each of these angles, the intensity of the radiation ... Read more

Volumetric Arc Therapy (VMAT) or RapidArc® Radiotherapy Technology is an advanced form of IMRT that delivers a precisely-sculpted 3D dose distribution with a 360-degree rotation of the gantry in a single or multi-arc treatment. Unlike conventional IMRT treatments, during which the machine must rotate several times around the patient or make repeated stops and starts to treat the tumor from ... Read more

What is High-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy? High-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy is a type of internal radiation therapy that delivers radiation from implants placed close to, or inside, the tumor(s) in the body. Because cancer often affects organs and other essential structures, it is important for radiation treatment to be tightly focused on tumors to minimize serious side effects. This technique ... Read more

Abstracts Call for Abstracts The abstract deadline is 1 December, 2018. Oral Presentations: Select abstracts, chosen by the Program Committee, will be presented as an oral presentation. Complete information (including presentation details, poster dimensions, etc.) will be provided after acceptance notification. Poster Presentations: All accepted abstracts will be displayed as posters throughout the meeting. Complete information (including poster dimensions) will ... Read more

1 Hands-On Training “HOT” Radiotherapy Delineation Contouring Workshops For the first time, a contouring workshop will take place during ASU-ICOC 2018. The workshop will use FALCON (Fellowship in Anatomic deLineation & CONtouring, the ESTRO delineation tool. FALCON workshops have been organized at ESTRO congresses since 2010 and have been growing steadily in popularity. Key in safe and effective radiation for ... Read more