Endorsed Meetings

Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Gynecological Cancers

June 15, 2019,  Ankara, Turkey

ESGO endorsed meeting ‘Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Gynecological Cancers’ was held on June 15, 2019 at Ankara University School of Medicine with 83 participants. Most of the participants were gynecologic oncology specialist and fellows working all around Turkey. The meeting started with welcome speeches and ESGO presentation. After 2 sessions, live surgery was performed by Alessandro Buda and Salih Taşkın. Cervical injection technique of indocyanine green and sentinel node identification were demonstrated during the surgery using florescent imaging. It was an interactive meeting since many discussions were held during each session between participants and speakers. After the meeting, dinner was organized to thank speakers and participants.

Prof Dr Fırat Ortaç, Conference Co-chair 

Ankara University Turkey

10th International Charité Mayo Conference – Global Perspectives and Future Directions in Women’s Cancer

April 3-6, 2019, Berlin, Germany

This year’s conference has again been a great success with more than 720 attendees from 46 countries.

The conference program consisted of 9 complex live surgeries and high-level as well as personal dialogues focusing on all hot topics in women’s cancer, from prevention via diagnostics, treatment and long-term follow-up as well as translational research. In the poster session 56 works were presented. The various adboards were excellent and produced significant results.

Several parts of the presentations and interviews have been posted on different press media reaching more than 180.000 physicians and will be placed on several international websites.

Prof. Dr. med. Jalid Sehouli, Conference Chair

10th International Charité Mayo Conference

7th Symposium on Gynecological Oncology

April 12, 2019, Novi Sad, Serbia

I would like to thank ESGO for endorsed our 7^th Symposium in gynecological oncology which was held  in The Great Hall of The Assembly of the AP Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia,  12/04/2019.

There were 229  participants and 13 lecturers. Among 13 lecturers there were two ESGO speakers from Republic of North Macedonia and Croatia.

During Symposium  our  National representative in ENYGO, dr Bojana Gutic, present ESGO to the participants.

The Symposium was evaluated by participants 4,87/5

Assoc.Prof. Aljosa Mandic, M.D., PhD, President of Organizing Committee

Oncology Institute of Vojvodina

EFC Advanced course of colposcopy

November 2 – 3, 2018, Belgrade, Serbia

“I am pleased that EFC Advanced course of colposcopy supported by ESGO has been perfectly organized by Congress team of Center Sava. Almost 150 participants from 7 countries have participated the course. We are happy to hear positive comments of many participants who say that they greatly enjoyed high scientific level of event as well as creative and friendly atmosphere. I would like to thank to all speakers: Prof. dr Špela Šmrkolj from Slovenia and Prof. dr Goran Dimitrov from Macedonia who represented ESGO, pathologist Prof.dr Ermina Ilijazović from Bosnia and Herzegovina who is also active in the ESGO Prevention Task Force, as well as distinguished speakers from EFC: Current President Prof.dr Charles Redman from UK, Past President Prof. dr. Ulrich Petry from Germany, and President Elect Prof.dr.  Pekka Nieminen from Finland.

My thanks go to the ESGO Scientific committee for supporting this course. We want to make it traditional, because it gives a strong link between the colleagues from the region and an excellent chance to learn and exchange the experiences. It is also a very important mode of collaboration with EFC. It is a great opportunity of collaboration between EFC and ESGO as the main European organization of gynecologic cancer which clearly emphasize the importance of prevention.”

Prof. Vesna Kesic, Former ESGO President,Head of Department of Gynaecological Oncology

Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade

3^rd Croatian Congress of Gynecological Oncology with International Participation

May 24-26, 2018, Zagreb, Croatia

“From 24 to 26 of May 3^rd national congress of gynecological oncology with international participation endorsed by ESGO was held in Zagreb, capital of Croatia. 170 colleagues that practice gynecological oncology gather in the nice venue. All fields of gynecological oncology were covered with excellent presentations and poster session. Surgeons found topics like contemporary management of endometrial cancer and role of lymphadenectomy in the treatment of ovarian cancer including laparoscopic lymphadenectomy of most interest. Oncologists were more interested in the need for BRCA testing, first and second line treatment for patients with advanced ovarian cancer and how precise genetic diagnostics for individual cancer treatment should be implemented in every day clinical practice.”

Prof.dr.sc.Vlastimir Kukura,dr.med., Head of Gynecology Department

                                   MERKUR University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia

Saint Petersburg International Oncology Forum “White Nights”

June 8-10, 2015, Saint Petersburg, Russia

“We highly appreciate the opportunity to hold such a significant oncology event endorsed by ESGO. The Forum covered a variety of scientific fields: diagnosis and screening, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, rehabilitation, head and neck, skin, soft tissue and bones, oncoimmunology, cell technologies, thoracic oncology, children's oncology, gynecology, urology, coloproctology, mammology, etc. It was attended by more than 3,000 people from different parts of Russia and abroad. More than 200 speakers from Russia and about 50 speakers from Great Britain, Australia, USA, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Finland, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, etc. participated in the scientific program of the Forum.   

We believe that our next event – the 3rd St. Petersburg International Oncology Forum “White Nights 2017” will also be endorsed by ESGO and will then become a truly important event in the field of oncology.”

Yuri Komarov, MD, Department of Chemotherapy and Innovative Technology

Petrov Research Institute of Oncology, Saint Petersburg, Russia

"Follow up in gynaecologic and breast malignancies“

October 14-15, 2016, Maribor, Slovenia

 ''When organizing our ESGO endorsed event in Maribor in October 2016 the role of ESGO was truly valuable. Especially with offering us the opportunity to invite recognized experts, to cover some of the expenses and to spread the word about the meeting. The congress was very successful with altogether little more than 60 participans enjoying high quality talks and discussions with the experts in the local enviroment with the costs they can afford. We are looking forward to organize the next ESGO endorsed meeting.''

Maja Pakiz, MD,  Department of Gynecologic and Breast Oncology

University Medical Centre Maribor

XIII Ukrainian Congress of Oncologists

May 26-29 , 2016, Kiev, Ukraine

It's a world practice, when pharma companies make financial and scientific support of professional meetings, providing top presentations by their opinion leaders.

Another situation is proposed by ESGO. The society proposes endorsement of local or regional meetings and conferences by speakers. The key point is scientific development.

I have experienced it personally, as I was a responsible organisers of both - local conference and than, national cancer congress. In the first situation, it was a meeting, discussing particular malignant disease, and ESGO organised speakers in order to make insight into some aspects of diagnostic and treatment in order to increase the level of local investigations and patients care; in case of National cancer congress - it was a different experience exchange between experts from different medical schools.

In both cases it was very useful, because almost 95% of local participants have no possibility to attend European meetings, obtaining sufficient modern professional knowledge. In such a way we can proudly declare, it was a real international meeting with a high level of expertise.

Thank you so much for the support and ESGO for such good programs!

Vladyslav Sukhin, Department of Gynecological Оncology

Grigoriev Institute of Medical Radiology 

NAMS of Ukraine, Kharkow

Vice-President of ENYGO

ESGO-RUSSCO Joint Session, Relapsed ovarian cancer: Basic approaches to management of relapsed ovarian cancer

March 25-26, 2016, Moscow, Russia

Russian Society of Clinical Oncology (RUSSCO) holds several annual multidisciplinary conferences and one of them is Gynecological Cancers Conference.

Knowing ESGO as a leading society in this area, RUSSCO applied for ESGO endorsement. Cooperation with ESGO allows to develop interesting program and to invite outstanding experts in field.

Endorsement of a well recognizable European society also allows to attract more participants and to increase the level of the event and turns the local conference into an international meeting.

Ilya Tsimafeyeu, Executive Director

Russian Society of Clinical Oncology (RUSSCO)

4th Gynecological Oncology Meeting: Update in Diagnostic and Treatment

April 15, 2016, Novi Sad, Serbia

"During the last few years I organized four National symposiums in gynecologic oncology that were hold in Novi Sad, Serbia.

ESGO endorsed our last two and accepted to endorse the fifth one in 2017. which will be held in Novi Sad , on April 21, 2017.

ESGO helps us a lot by inviting and supporting ESGO lecturers to come and participate in our meetings, increasing the quality of our meeting.  The presentations by ESGO invited speakers, were always   good and up to date. 

In the name of our organizing committee, many thanks to ESGO that recognized an important task to help and spread knowledge in gynecological oncology at our small national meetings."

Aljosa Mandic, President of Organizing Committee

Oncology Institute of Vojvodina

1st international congress on Debatable topics in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility (DTOGI) 

Feb 2016, Tehran, Iran

The preventative gynecology research center (PGRC) which belongs to the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, held its 1st international congress on Debatable topics in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility (DTOGI) in Feb 2016. This congress was proud to have been awarded the ESGO endorsement.

The feedback of the attendees showed outstanding success, due to the highly technical and scientific speeches by renowned scientists from across the globe. The president of ESGO, Prof Kescic supported us in every way.

We organized two ESGO sessions presenting the most important topics in the field of gyn-oncology by the four best and highly qualified ESGO speakers.

We could support financially only two of them and ESGO agreed to provide support for two other members which was remarkable.

The active role of ESGO speakers in the scientific program providing their experience and expertise to our audience was fantastic.

Finally, I would like to say that the ESGO endorsement helped a lot to increase the knowledge of Iranian Gyn-gynecologists who participated at the congress from all around the country regarding the new data in the field of Gyn-Oncology and to better address the medical concerns of the women who suffered from the gynecology cancers.

I would like to say thanks to the ESGO organizers and special thanks to the Prof Vesna Kesic for their kind collaboration in that meeting and hope this happens again in the 2nd DTOGI on Feb 2018.

Farah Farzaneh, Chair of the 1st DTOGI Congress Scientific Program Committee (Feb 2016)

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

Head of the Preventative Gynecology Research Center (PGRC)