The 2018 edition of the SIOG Annual Conference took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands from November 16-18. 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 2018 Annual Conference in numbers

523 delegates from 41 countries
28 scientific sessions with a total of 102 talks
81 faculty members from 17 countries
238 abstracts submissions
2 industry sponsored satellite sessions
1 session supported by an unrestricted educational grant
2’061 tweets from 336 people, 2 842 000 impressions* mentioning #SIOG18.^{* Impressions : number of times that users have seen posts containing your hashtag, keyword, url and/or @mention. A single user can deliver multiple impressions.}

SIOG 2018 Awards

The SIOG 2018 awards were announced at the SIOG Presidential Session in Amsterdam. Delegates met to congratulate the winners.

The SIOG 2018 Paul Calabresi award: Martine Puts (CA). Read More
The 2018 BJ Kennedy award for best poster: Jason Zittel (US) – “I’m not looking to live to be 100…”: the role of self-perception of age in decisions about adjuvant chemotherapy for older adults with cancer. Read his abstract
The SIOG 2018 Nursing & Allied Health investigator award:Grace Lu-Yao (US) – Relationship between polypharmacy status and healthcare utilization in geriatric oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy. Read More
The SIOG 2018 Young investigator award: Lucy Dumas (GB) – Muscle density not mass predicts for survival in older adults with newly diagnosed epithelial ovarian cancer. Read More
The SIOG 2018 Young Research Prize:Mandy Kiderlen (NL) – A phase II study of concomitant hyperthermia with radiotherapy in older patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer.

SIOG 2018 Session slides

The session presentations will be available for SIOG members and SIOG 2018 participants. SIOG members will be able to access them by logging in their MySIOG acccount (the presentations will be located under the member news section). SIOG 2018 participants can contact the SIOG Head Office at enquiry@siog.org to obtain the link for the slides.

SIOG 2018 Photos

Selected photos taken during the conference can be seen in our Dropbox.

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SIOG 2018 Final Programme (pdf, as of November 13, 2018)
SIOG 2018 Erratum (pdf)
SIOG 2018 Conference Report (pdf)

SIOG 2018 in the media

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All abstracts of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology were published in a supplement of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology (JGO) – the official journal of SIOG.
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SIOG 2018 Annual Conference