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• The Australasian Gastro Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG) mission is to improve outcomes for patients affected by GI cancer. Involving the community at all levels of the institute to raise awareness and funds for the prevention and treatement of GI cancer in Australia and New Zealand.

• The Australasian Leukaemia & Lymphoma Group (ALLG) is an independant non-profit organisation established by clinicians who care for patients with leukaemia, lymphoma and related blood diseases. It aims to improve the treatment of these patients and to foster collaboration with other relevant groups both national and international. It also aims to fund appropriate research and specific programs to reduce the burdon of such diseases for present and future generations, and to increase the understanding of such diseases by appropriate research including clinical trials.

• The Australasian Lung Trials Group (ALTG) is Australia and New Zealand's lung and thoracic cancer clinical research group. The ALTG is a multi-disciplinary organisation dedicated to reducing the incidence, morbidity and mortality of lung and thoracic cancer and improving the quality of life of lung and thoracic cancer patients in Australia and New Zealand through the coordination and facilitation of high quality clinical research.   

• The Australian New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group (ANZBCTG) is dedicated to the control of breast cancer through quality research.  

• The Children's Haematology and Oncology Group (ANZ CHOG) aim is to encourage and support education and the advanement of knowledge in all aspects of treatment and childhood cancers. Emphasis is on advances in molecular biology, and the opportunities afforded by those advances for the improvement in diagnosis, treatment and prediction of outcomes of therapy.  

• The Australia New Zealand Germ Cell Trials Group (ANZGCTG) is an established netwrok of over 100 clinicians and researchers, is the only national organisation dedicated to high quality clinical research for people affected by germ cell cancers. The coordinating centre for the group is at the CTC.

• Australia New Zealand Gynaecology Oncology Group (ANZGOG) was established to foster and support collaborative research throughout Australia and New Zealand and improve outcomes of women with gynaecological malignancies through randomised clinical trials.   

• Australia Sarcoma Study Group (ASSG) 

• The Australia New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group (ANZ MTG) was established in 1999. Its first project was to design and support randomised phase III trial in melanoma comparing adjuvant radiotherapy to observation in patients with resected nodal disease. Since then the ANZ MTG has successfully met the target patient recruitment for this trial and is in the process of developing 4 new clinical trial protocols. The ANZ MTG has recognised the need to centrally promote and support melanoma trials for investigators and consumers. 

• Australian Prostrate and Urogenital Cancer Group (APUG)   

• Cancer Australia is the federal government agency established to help reduce the impact of cancer for all Australians. 

• Cancer Council Australia is Australia's national non-government cancer control organisation.

• Cancer Nurses Society of Australia (CNSA) aims to promote excellence in cancer care and to act as a resource to cancer nurses around Australia.

• Cancer Professionals Development Project is an initiative of Cancer Australia. The project will develop targeted professional development packages for a broad range of cancer professionals.of cancer and the care of cancer patients.   

• Centre for Health Research and Pyscho-oncology (CHeRP) is a behavioural research group focussing on primary and secondary prevention of cancer as well as the behavioural aspects of the consequences of cancer and the care of cancer patients.  

• Co-operative Trial Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO) is a newly formed national neuro-oncology trial based group based at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, located at the University of Sydney.  COGNO's mission is: "The achievement of better health outcomes for patients and those affected by brain tumours through clinical trials research."    

• Medical Oncology Group of Australia (MOGA) aims to promote the advancement of knowledge and the practice of medicine in the field pertaining to medical oncology for the benefit of the community.

• The Medical Psychology Research Unit is a joint initiative of the School of Psychology and Department of Medicine, University of Sydney.   

• Mulitilingual Cancer Information is a resource containing factsheets in 17 different languages.      

• The National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research; for developing health advice for the Australian community, health professionals and governments; and for providing advice on ethical behaviou in health care and in the conduct of heatlh and medical research.     

• Oncology Social Work Australia (OSWA) is the peak organisation for Australian Oncology Social Workers who aim to provide excellence in the psychosocial care of people with a cancer and for those affected by a cancer.

• The Psycho-oncology Cooperative Research Group (PoCoG) was established in 2005, in response to a recognised need to develop the capacity and co-ordinated collaboration to conduct large-scale, multi-centre psycho-oncology and supportive care research.   

• The TransTasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) is Australia and New Zealand's specialist clinical research group for radiotherapy. TROG is a cooperative multidisciplinary organisation dedicated to the control of a wide range of cancers through quality multicentre research.

United States Oncological Organisations

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Founded in 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, ACOG today has over 45,000 members and is the nation's leading group of professionals providing health care for women. Now based in Washington, DC, it is a private, voluntary, nonprofit membership organisation.

• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is a non-profit organisation, founded in 1964, with overarching goals of improving cancer care and prevention and ensuring that all patients with cancer receive care of the highest quality.

• The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).  

• The Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) is an adult cancer clinical trials organisation, one of the largest in the world. Our National Cancer Institute-sponsored Cooperative Group's membership and network consists of almost 4,000 of the nation's leading physicians at 283 institutions throughout the United States and Canada.

International Organisations

• European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) is the leading European professional organisation representing medical oncologists. The Society focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to treatment and has expanded to include radiation and surgical oncologists, as well as other healthcare professionals involved in cancer care. ESMO aims to unite physicians, caregivers, and patients in a global alliance committed to combating cancer and ensuring equal access to quality multidisciplinary treatment.

• The International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) was created to foster international multidisciplinary communication about clinical, educational and research issues that relate to psycho-oncology.