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First IASLC Chinese Workhop on Lung Cancer
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Meeting report First IASLC Chinese Workhop on Lung Cancer September 8–11, 1999, Shenyang, P.R. China
Opened by the Mayor of the City and chaired by Professor Li Hou-Wen, Chairman of the Department of General Thoracic Surgery at the Shenyang First Affiliated University Hospital, the IASLC Chinese Workshop on Lung Cancer, entitled ‘State of the Art in Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer’ was held in Shenyang, P.R. of China, on September 8 – 11, 1999. Organized in cooperation with the above-mentioned Chinese Medical Institution and the Japanese National Cancer Center Hospital and Research Institute, Tokyo, the Workshop was recognized by IASLC from the beginning as a step in its worldwide postgraduate educational
program and an IASLC grant was donated. In addition, four members of the IASLC Teaching Faculty participated in the scientific programme. The opening ceremony of the conference included artistic performances and was attended by young and enthusiastic colleagues from all over China. A total of 560 participants attended the meeting which added a memorable page to the history of the Chinese medical world and its development, as an international conference on lung cancer of that size and scale had never taken place before in China. The conference had two sections: one with 17 invited speakers, presenting a total of 22 special lectures, while the other had Chinese doctors as core members, presenting 60 topics selected from 630 total submissions from all over China. The latter papers covered a variety of topics while the invited lectures extensively covered all the main issues of lung cancer. The 630 abstracts were published in an abstract book which is a valuable academic reference providing information about the standard of medical science in China today. As a Board officer of the IASLC, I found it most pleasing that this workshop attracted 250 new IASLC members, most of whom appeared to
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Meeting report / Lung Cancer 28 (2000) 255–256
be doctors of the younger generation. Throughout this workshop, the enthusiasm of the Chinese doctors were strongly felt, and it is the main source which supports them in their continued effort to bring lung cancer to an end in the near future. The first Chinese IASLC Workshop on Lung Cancer was thus highly successful and Professor Li Hou-Wen and the many other staff members and participants should be congratulated on the success of this meeting which brought much hope
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for the further development of medical science in China. Tsuguo Naruke Di6ision of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Centre Hospital, 1 -1, 5 -Chome Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, Japan
Meeting report First IASLC Chinese Workhop on Lung Cancer September 8–11, 1999, Shenyang, P.R. China
Opened by the Mayor of the City and chaired by Professor Li Hou-Wen, Chairman of the Department of General Thoracic Surgery at the Shenyang First Affiliated University Hospital, the IASLC Chinese Workshop on Lung Cancer, entitled ‘State of the Art in Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer’ was held in Shenyang, P.R. of China, on September 8 – 11, 1999. Organized in cooperation with the above-mentioned Chinese Medical Institution and the Japanese National Cancer Center Hospital and Research Institute, Tokyo, the Workshop was recognized by IASLC from the beginning as a step in its worldwide postgraduate educational
program and an IASLC grant was donated. In addition, four members of the IASLC Teaching Faculty participated in the scientific programme. The opening ceremony of the conference included artistic performances and was attended by young and enthusiastic colleagues from all over China. A total of 560 participants attended the meeting which added a memorable page to the history of the Chinese medical world and its development, as an international conference on lung cancer of that size and scale had never taken place before in China. The conference had two sections: one with 17 invited speakers, presenting a total of 22 special lectures, while the other had Chinese doctors as core members, presenting 60 topics selected from 630 total submissions from all over China. The latter papers covered a variety of topics while the invited lectures extensively covered all the main issues of lung cancer. The 630 abstracts were published in an abstract book which is a valuable academic reference providing information about the standard of medical science in China today. As a Board officer of the IASLC, I found it most pleasing that this workshop attracted 250 new IASLC members, most of whom appeared to
0169-5002/00/$ - see front matter © 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 1 6 9 - 5 0 0 2 ( 0 0 ) 0 0 1 1 1 - 2
256
Meeting report / Lung Cancer 28 (2000) 255–256
be doctors of the younger generation. Throughout this workshop, the enthusiasm of the Chinese doctors were strongly felt, and it is the main source which supports them in their continued effort to bring lung cancer to an end in the near future. The first Chinese IASLC Workshop on Lung Cancer was thus highly successful and Professor Li Hou-Wen and the many other staff members and participants should be congratulated on the success of this meeting which brought much hope
.
for the further development of medical science in China. Tsuguo Naruke Di6ision of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Centre Hospital, 1 -1, 5 -Chome Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, Japan