The 2016 edition of the SIOG Annual Conference took place in Milan, Italy from November 17-19. 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 2016 Annual Conference in numbers
- 457 delegates from 42 countries
- 29 scientific sessions with a total of 151 talks
- 76 faculty members from 24 countries
- 210 abstract submissions
- 164 accepted abstracts of which 9 were withdrawn
- 20 oral presentations and 135 posters presented at SIOG 2016
- 46 rejected abstracts
- 2 industry sponsored satellite sessions
- 2 sessions supported by an unrestricted educational grant
- 1’507 tweets from 255 people mentioning #SIOG16
SIOG 2016 Awards
The SIOG 2016 Paul Calabresi award was given to Reinhard Stauder (AT) Read More
The SIOG 2016 National Representative of the year was given to Lore Decoster (BE). Read More
The 2016 BJ Kennedy award for best poster was given to Daisuke Makiura (JP) – Sarcopenia is associated with an unplanned readmission and worse survival following esophagectomy
The SIOG 2016 Nursing & Allied Health investigator award was given to Fay Strohschein (CA) – Choosing to trust: cancer treatment decision making from the perspective of older adults with colorectal cancer. Read More
The SIOG 2016 Young investigator award was given to Zachary Horne (US) – National patterns of care and outcomes of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas in patients over 70. Read More
SIOG 2016 Session slides
The session presentations are now available for SIOG members and SIOG 2016 participants. SIOG members can access them by logging in their MySIOG acccount (the presentations are located under the member news section). SIOG 2016 participants can contact the SIOG Head Office at enquiry@siog.org to obtain the link for the slides.
SIOG 2016 Scientific programme
The final programme is available (pdf, 1.86MB).
An erratum for the final programme is available (pdf).
SIOG 2016 Photos
Selected photos taken during the conference are available here. (Dropbox)
SIOG 2016 In the media
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Articles/reports on the SIOG 2016 Annual Conference published in various journals:
2017 Spring – 2017 PragueONCO Journal – Global reach of geriatric oncology: a report from the 16th SIOG Congress
AIOTE report on the SIOG 2016 Annual Conference (In Italian)
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