PROCEEDINGS OF 16TH PANCARE MEETING

Abstract

It was a great pleasure for me to host the16th PanCare Meeting in Vienna, September 23-25, 2015. Since the first Meeting in 2008 in Lund, the number of participants was constantly increasing and there were 152 participants in Vienna. Before becoming an association last year PanCare was built up by a group of people interested in long-term follow-up care and research after cancer in childhood and adolescence. It became obvious that the well-established and well-functioning structures in paediatric oncology are limited concerning the needs of adolescents and adults after cancer in childhood and adolescence. New concepts became also necessary for research of long-term sequelae. The close collaboration between the different professional disciplines and the intensive exchange with survivor organisations form the unique profile of the PanCare Association. This is traditionally reflected in the diversity of the participants and the programmes of the PanCare meetings.