SIOG 2017 Warsaw

The 2017 edition of the SIOG Annual Conference took place in Warsaw, Poland from November 9-11. We would like to thank all participants, faculty members and industry partners for their participation which contributed to the huge success of our conference.

The SIOG 2017 Annual Conference in numbers

• 368 delegates from 41 countries
• 26 scientific sessions with a total of 143 talks
• 67 faculty members from 22 countries
• 185 abstract submissions
  • 169 accepted abstracts of which 23 were withdrawn
  • 29 oral presentations and 116 posters presented at SIOG 2017
  • 16 rejected abstracts

• 1 industry sponsored satellite session
• 2 sessions supported by an unrestricted educational grant
• 525 tweets from 120 people, 114’124 reach* and 533’680 impressions** mentioning #SIOG17 and #SIOG2017.

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SIOG 2017 Awards

The SIOG 2017 Paul Calabresi award was given to Arti Hurria (US). Read More
The SIOG 2017 National Representative of the year was given to Theodora Karnakis (BR). Read More
Lodovico Balducci (US) received a SIOG Lifetime achievement Award. Read More
The 2017 BJ Kennedy award for best poster was given to Domenico La Carpia (IT) – cognitive decline and functional status in elderly cancer survivors from non hodgkin lymphoma
The SIOG 2017 Nursing & Allied Health investigator award was given to Ramona Moor (BE) – Impact of a specific multidisciplinary geriatric oncology clinical pathway on the number and types of implemented geriatric interventions Read More
The SIOG 2017 Young investigator award was given to Melisa Wong (US) – Characteristics associated with physical function trajectories in older adults with cancer receiving chemotherapy: a multicenter prospective cohort study Read More

SIOG 2017 Session slides

The session presentations are available for SIOG members and SIOG 2017 participants. SIOG members will be able to access them by logging in their MySIOG acccount (the presentations are located under the member news section). SIOG 2017 participants can contact the SIOG Head Office at enquiry@siog.org to obtain the link for the slides.

SIOG 2017 Scientific programme

The final programme is available (pdf).
An erratum for the final programme is available (pdf).

SIOG 2017 Photos

Selected photos taken during the conference are available on our Dropbox.

SIOG 2017 in the media

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  All abstracts of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology were published in a supplement of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology (JGO), official journal of SIOG.
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CME accreditation

The SIOG 2017 Annual Conference was granted 16 European CME credits (ECMEC®s) by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®). More info

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