ICEDOC is the "International Campaign for the Establishment and Development of Oncology Centres"  A Non-Profit, Non-Governmental organization. 

 

 1st   Founding meeting of its Committee   was  held in  24-25 September 1996, Vienna ,Austria.   ICEDOC is  incorporated in September 1999 ,   Texas ,USA.

   After years of communication and preparation many colleagues from around the world have shared and planned for  its  outreach.

 " ICEDOC's  Experts in Cancer Without Borders " is the main corpus of ICEDOC. It offers free consultation and advice to authorities ,colleagues and cancer patients on volunteer basis. We convey a message of love for all.

Examples of some activties of " ICEDOC's Experts in Cancer Without Borders" :

 

NEW update of  October 12, 2006  : One year ago , ICEDOC has launched  "The South and East Mediterranean College of Oncology SEMCO. President of SEMCO is Prof. Hussein Khaled, NCI, Cairo and Director is Prof. Ahmed Elzawawy,

The objective is to establish regular professional and public educational courses, meetings, training and researches in different fields related to cancer. 

All distinguished colleagues and cancer Experts in The South and East Mediterranean as well as international colleagues in ICEDOC and international and national organizations are invited to have their distinguished and leading advisory roles in SEMCO. 

 We welcome all cooperation and collaborations.  

SEMCO is thankful to SEHA  South and East Mediterranean for Health advances (Representative Mrs. Lamia Aboulfadl) for the continuous collaboration since its early development.

As in ICEDOC, the role of the president and the director of SEMCO are to offer the organizational environment, with the least possible complexities, in order to serve their distinguished colleagues. Moreover, to create more bonds to gather some of the good but dispersed activities in this wide region.  

 We are very frank and up to the point when we stress on one of the important principals in the new school : SEMCO respects and appreciates  the prestige and experience of every distinguished colleague in the region and we consider all suggestions , common upcoming activities , and collaboration.  

It is a call for all colleagues in the region to join the activities of SEMCO.

  

For more details Contact ICEDOC:   e-mail  icedoc@nilesat.net & worldcooperation@gmail.com  

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SEMCO programs of the fall of 2009 and the years 2010, 2011 in the region are under development.

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SEMCO is the local-regional organizing committee for AORTIC 2011 conference, Cairo, Egypt. The year 2011.

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Wednesday 15 - to Friday 17, April  , 2009 , Cairo :

SEMCO-ASCO advanced course and conference : Palliative Oncology .    

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March 17-18, 2009, Cairo, Egypt : 

2nd Africa Breast Cancer conference . SEMCO & Princess Nikky Breast Cancer Foundation & ASCOD.  

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January 14- 16, 2009, Alexandria, Egypt :

 ACOD 12 : SEMCO-ACOD-AORTIC conference. Host organizer : ACOD .  

( AORTIC : African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer ) .  

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November 20 - 22, 2008, Izmir, Turkey :

2nd ASCO-SEMCO Multidisciplinary Cancer Management Course (MCMC) Turkey.  

 

Please visit  the web www.ascosemco2008.org  to contact Prof. Munir Kinay Izmir ,Turkey.  

( Visit www.icedoc.org ,you'll find many previous lectures under the icon of SEMCO  & For  registration for the  meeting of Izmir  2008 : www.ascosemco2008.org  ) 

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Update of 5th  September, 2008 :

Examples of the SEMCO Educational activities and conferences : November  2008 - April 2009

 

(SEMCO: South and East Mediterranean college of Oncology)

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Update of May 31, 2008

Lectures and presentations of the SEMCO-ASCO-ASCOD conference and advances course, 26-28 March 2008, Cairo, Egypt. To download the lectures click here

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2nd update of March 14, 2008-03-14 

2nd SEMCO-ASCO-ASCOD conference and advanced course will be held on 26-28 March, 2008 Cairo Egypt (ASCO: American Society of Clinical Oncology) for program click here, for interactive registration form click here for  1st announcement click here. 

To read The SEMCO initiative to enhance international scientific publications in all fields of cancer click here

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The South and East Mediterranean College of Oncology SEMCO is pleased to inform you that for the first time, the American Society of clinical Oncology (ASCO) will hold its Multidisciplinary Cancer Management Course (MCMC) in the region. The ASCO-MCMC course will be organized by SEMCO, on April  5-6, 2007, Cairo, Egypt.  Click here for Invitation Letter. Click here for brochure in PDF format. Click here for its registration form and here for its accommodation form.

 The main theme:" The multidisciplinary management of breast and bladder cancers."

April 7,8  2007 : The course will be followed by "Practical approaches for cancer management" with on site visits to NCI, Cairo and NEMROK of Kaser El Einy, Cairo University.  

For more details Contact ICEDOC :   e-mail  icedoc@nilesat.net & worldcooperation@gmail.com  

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Upcoming events : ICEDOC/ SEMCO is preparing for the upcoming  scientific and Educational events  for the year 2007 and 2008 . ( One the nearest event will be with  ESMO  The European Society of Medical Oncology )  

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The upcoming ICEDOC's Experts missions will be in Malaysia and Tanzania. There are preparations for missions in Latin America and India. 

We welcome the study of any suggestion from any part of the world to host an ICEDOC 4-6 day's mission and we consider it in our program if we can. (Our principals: All patients are my patient, all colleagues in the world are my colleague, and ICEDOC belongs to all!)

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Contact ICEDOC for the report of  the ICEDOC's Expert mission  of Prof. Elgazzar to Shanghai ,China  (19 to 23 September ,2005).

For the summary of activities done during the years 2003 , 2004  and for the last ICEDOC's newsflash for the year 2005,   send an e-mail to: ICEDOC@nilesat.net   or ahmedelzawawy@hotmail.com  .  

 

Last news for the year 2003 was on  19 December, 2003.  Mrs. Lamia Aboulfadl, The representative of MEED (Middle East Economic Development) asked for the expertise of ICEDOC's experts in Cancer Without Borders in the  fields of Health and cancer.

 

Examples of some  activties of " ICEDOC's Experts in Cancer Without Borders" during the years 2000- 2002   :

* 27-28 May, 2002 : ICEDOC/ Izmir ( Turkey) meeting .Chairman of ICEDOC's Izmir ( Turkey) Activities is Prof.Munir Kinay. (Main Headline:  The possibilities  short Training or Fellowships  in Izmir.Dukuz Eylul University , particularly for candidates from countries  of middle Asia ,Caucasian region and Georgia (Former Soviet Union). For the full report about the meeting contact ICEDOC@nilesat.net

* March 2002, Annaba, Algeria. A consultation trip and Workshop to advice on the new project of cancer Centre. CHU, Annaba. Moreover , An initiative of " An Organized and coordinated palliative care, Annaba, Algeria was discussed. (sarizoubir@hotmail.com). For the full report contact ICEDOC@nilesat.net
 

- Some of the ICEDOC's  activities presented in the   ICEDOC  meeting of  12 May, 2001 , San Francisco ,CA , USA :

 

* 22-29 July ,2000 :  The ICEDOC –CPC Workshop , Tbilsi , Batumi , Georgia. ( Local ICEDOC-CPC Organizer is Prof.Rema Gvamichava )  There is a commitment from ICEDOC to continue its interaction and cooperation with colleagues in Georgia .


* 24 September 2000: The first on site consultation  to advise on a project of radiotherapy , Annaba, Algeria. ( Local ICEDOC Contact ,Professor Sari Zoubir ,Annaba )


* 19 October 2000, Bangkok, Thailand ( our  meeting with ICEDOC chief advisers in Thailand , Prof. Puribhat and Physicist Niskorn Mantrakul , and with the director of national cancer institute and heads of departments and colleagues in Bangkok ). ,

* 22- 26 October 2000, Shanghai , China. First ICEDOC's Experts mission to Shanghai and The  joint ICEDOC-Chinese Society of pediatric Oncology meeting. An agreement for yearly ICEDOC's Consultants visits to Shanghai was signed.

 * 27-31 October 2000:Jodhpur ,India , With cooperation with Sanchetee hospital  ( Consultation visit , Camp for examining cases with colleagues coming  from Jodhpur, and jodhpur faculty of Medicine ,different hospitals and  colleagues coming  specially from  some different parts of India , colleagues from Bombay ,Keralla ,our  inauguration of a Campaign for mobilization of early detection attended by principals and school teachers of the region , inauguration of a Mammography unit , Outpatient Chemotherapy unit, Meetings with colleagues in the department of radiotherapy in the one of the hospitals of the faculty of Medicine , we offered and to continue to offer technical and practical advices for the project to establish the first modern Nuclear medicine unit in Rahjstan Region.  Moreover, a workshop was held in the faculty of Medicine of Jodhpur ). There is a commitment from ICEDOC to continue its interaction and cooperation with colleagues in India .

* 1st November 2000 :Kuwait ,  consultation visit to advise on the first hospice for palliative and terminal care tailored to culture and values  in Kuwait   , that could be a model or an experience to be  reproduced in Kuwait and other parts in the same region.  

These consultation and workshops held were surely preceded by long preparation . But , the most important part is the follow up and the progress of what achieved or planned during such short visit for few days. For such vital part, which is the follow up and continuity, all  visitors of ICEDOC's  website and all  who would like to share in the world  are invited to offer (across e-mails)   their comments , advices and if possible how they can help. 

This means that  our ICEDOC visits  don't  finished by Good Bye in the airport and some reports later on , but the actual work for all  starts  at that  moment and  extends  for years.

 

One of the most demanded activities of ICEDOC is that   we offer a   lot of E-mails advices or connect colleagues in all continents  to experts in different parts of the world. It proves to be a very practical and prompt way of assistance!    

 

ICEDOC is formed to complement and NOT to compete with any organization or initiative. 

Our message is a message of love for all and we are all volunteers. 

http://www.icedoc.org/        e-mails : ICEDOC@nilesat.net & ahmedelzawawy@hotmail.com     

FAX :  +1 (928) 2442696   USA & +20 66 / 3320  403 Egypt .
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