Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the Asian Oncology Summit website. On behalf of the programme committees and organisers, I’d like to invite you to join us for the Second Asian Oncology Summit to be held in Bali, Indonesia, on April 9–11, 2010. We have assembled a tremendous 2.5 day schedule containing many regional and internationally renowned experts that we hope you will find compelling and informative.

The previous Summit was attended by approximately 800 delegates from throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Once again, we aim to provide a meeting that is relevant to practising physicians to help inform clinical practice and to optimise and improve

patient management. The 2010 Summit includes five parallel programmes each dedicated to a different oncology specialty. Additionally, the Summit includes a number of educational and scientific sessions, plenary lectures, and discussions covering a broad range of subjects.

The theme for the 2010 event is optimising multidisciplinary care in Asia. In these economically constrained times, optimisation of healthcare has never been more important. The full integration and refinement of current knowledge, combined with new modalities and treatments that bring increased cost–benefits, has the potential to substantially improve treatment outcomes within a comparatively restricted healthcare environment.

I hope you find the conference details in this website, coupled with the wonderful location for the Summit, to be a persuasive reason to attend. Your active participation will continue to make the Asian Oncology Summit a unique and valuable contribution to medical practice in Asia.

I look forward to seeing you in Bali.



Dr David Collingridge
Editor, The Lancet Oncology
Chair, AOS 2010