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Annals of Oncology 2009 20(1):3-4; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdn780
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society for Medical Oncology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

editorial

ESMO's new strategic plan: our society's road to the future of oncology

J. Baselga, H. Mellsted and D. Kerr

on behalf of ESMO

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After 30 years of continued growth and progress, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) through its Executive Committee recently agreed on the need to launch a major strategic plan that would carefully analyze the current status of oncology and the needs of our members and that would assist us in selecting our priorities on multiple fronts in years to come. This strategic plan has now been completed and approved by our Society's General Assembly and is in the process of being implemented by our office as well by an army of members and volunteers.

The first sobering realization at age 30 of our society is that despite apparent advances in several fronts from basic research to improved therapies, cancer continues to be a major cause of suffering and death in our population. In Europe . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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