Improving Oncology Worldwide

Part 1: Improving Education.- Blended-learning for oncologists and their colleagues.- Establishing a continuing education program based on the ESMO/ASCO recommendations for a global curriculum in Egypt.- Launching the first board-certification program in radiation oncology in Iraq - obstacles and outcomes.- Improving the WHO Classification of Tumours books by an evidence-based approach - a new online/blended learning training program.- Part 2: Improving Clinical Research.- Getting started in research - What registries can do for you.- Asking existing data the right questions - data mining as a research option in low- and middle-income countries.- Evidence-based treatment decisions - Systematic reviews and meta-analaysis in GI oncology.- Establishing and running a research laboratory in Iraq in real life.- Challenges in scientific communications of a pharmaceutical company.- Molecular and cellular analyses of breast cancers in real life.- The use of information technology to advance patient care - Creating, providing and maintaining online resources.- Organization of clinical trials at the Blokhin cancer center in Moscow.- Challenges in establishing the Center for Clinical Trials at Ulm University.- Part 3: Improving Patient Care.-Obstacles and Optimization of Surgical Oncology Services in India and Technology transfer to Cameroon.- Challenges for the young oncology workforce in Portugal.- Challenges in building a cancer center in Armenia - Staying linked to the outside world.- Current challenges in cancer care in Libya.- Quality Oncology Practice Improvement certification in Brazil: A successful knowledge transfer under the auspices of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).- Challenges in running a comprehensive cancer centre.