The SIOP Story: an Informal History of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology
Received: 3 June 2016 Revised: 8 July 2016 Accepted: 8 July 2016 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.26170 Pediatric HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Blood & The American Society of Cancer Pediatric Hematology/Oncology The SIOP story: An informal history of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology Giorgio Perilongo1 Sir Alan Craft2 Berta Jereb3 Hans Peter Wagner4 Giulio J. D’Angio5 for the SIOP History Writing Group∗ 1Department of Woman’s and Child’s Health, University Hospital of Padua, Italy 2The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 3Institute of Oncology, Department of Radiation Therapy, Ljubljana, Slovenia 4Department of Pediatrics, University of Bern Medical School, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland 5Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, USA ∗Bharat Agarwal, B. J. Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India; Gabriele Calaminus, University Children’s Hospital Bonn, Germany Sarah Donaldon, Stanford Univer- sity, Stanford, CA, USA; Maarten Egeler, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto,Canada; Françoise Flamant, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France; Berta Jereb, Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Odile Oberlin, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France; Bengt Sandstedt, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Michael Stevens, Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK; Hans Peter Wagner, University of Bern Medical School, Bern, Switzerland; Jean Michel Zucker, Institut Curie, Paris, France Pediatr Blood Cancer 2016; 63:S5 wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/pbc c 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. S5 Pediatric Blood & The American Society of Cancer Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Preface Giorgio Perilongo University of Padua Giorgio Perilongo, President of SIOP (2014–2016). At any personal level, be it in relation to family, society, national, or the outlook for children with cancer and their families, and therefore, global organizations, an awareness of origins—to know whence one in bettering the general welfare.
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