2024 The Japanese Society of Medical Oncology Annual Meeting (JSMO2024)

2024 The Japanese Society of Medical Oncology Annual Meeting (JSMO2024) is organized by Congress Corporation and will be held from Feb 22 - 24, 2024 at Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

Theme: Break the Borders and Beyond ~for our patients~

Description:
Recent years have seen advances in personalized medicine, both for individual organs and as tumour-agnostic treatments, and immunotherapy has joined surgery, radiotherapy, and pharmacologic therapy as major treatment categories. As the theme of this 21st Annual Meeting, I have chosen “Break the Borders and Beyond: for our patients.” My understanding is that the goal of our research is to help all cancer patients to live wonderful lives. Many of my colleagues are working directly with patients in both fundamental and clinical research. At this Annual Meeting, I desire that we will break down all the borders of nationality, status, speciality, profession, treatment modality, and others to engage in conversation and discussion and open new paths to the future before us, as part of one world. What then lies ahead is a bright future, both for cancer patients and for us.

I hope that in the general oral presentations, you will present new research results and share the information with many people from around the world. As usual, I also intend to offer a full Advocate Program for patients living with cancer. As presidential events, I am planning a tumour-agnostic program not covered by any of the individual subcommittees, as well as programs in which government bodies, researchers, medical professionals, and patients can together consider topics that must unavoidably be faced in future, such as the aged society of the future, the framework of the cancer treatment system for Japan as a whole, advanced medicine, and the utilization of real-world data.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.