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In essence, he has thrown down the gauntlet: can IO’s run a successful cooperative group trial of image-guided therapy? This is an historic opportunity--- for the first time, interventionalists are running an NCI cooperative group trial.

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As a global community devoted to the growth of interventional oncology, WCIO promotes the development of skilled practitioners of minimally-invasive, image-guided therapies for cancer and its symptoms through meetings, on-line education, and practice resources....

On Monday night (Tuesday morning in Asia-Pacific), VuMedi hosted the first WCIO-sponsored webinar on IO Practice Building and Chemoembolization.180 viewers signed on from North America and Asia-Pacific, plus a few European night owls, making this one of the most succesful VuMedi webinars ever.
 

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RSNA puts on an annual intensive week-long boot camp on clinical trial design. And I mean intensive -- while a Scottsdale resort in January sounds like fun, the 7AM-10PM daily schedule leaves little time for frivolity. The intended audience is junior faculty from around the world....

The August issue of JVIR is well worth perusing for both beginning and experienced interventional oncologists. Ryan Hickey’s primers on Cancer Concepts and Principles provide a thorough introductory background for IR Fellows and early practitioners. Busy practitioners will appreciate...

Responding to the exponential growth of IO, CIRSE made the prescient decision to make ECIO an annual meeting, paralleling the annual WCIO meeting in New York and the newly expanded Best of WCIO meetings worldwide in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.

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Last week was the WCIO International Education Division’s first collaboration with our colleagues from the National Cancer Institute of Mexico. Dr. Adrian Gonzales from the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición ¨Salvador Zubirán¨reports on the meeting: ...

The purpose of WCIO is to promote IO globally as the fourth pillar of cancer care.  One of our priority initiatives is international outreach to regions where IO is growing and there is a demand for more IO education and training. 

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Another fabulous WCIO meeting has just come to a close at the midtown Hilton in New York City. With professional attendance up 20%, 45% international registrants, and record-breaking registration and industry support, WCIO further cements its status as THE world scientific meeting for IO......

At ISET this year, Gary Becker, the executive director of the American Board of Radiology, prognosticated that interventional oncology would be the first subspecialty of IR. 

At SIR last month, one of the faculty was told that he could not refer to IO as a “subspecialty of IR” ......