About this Event
Global Surgical Oncology Challenges brings together policymakers and health professionals from around the world to examine what stands between cancer diagnosis and a safe operation. Convened by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training at Imperial College London with InciSioN – International Student Surgical Network, this half-day hybrid session follows the patient from diagnosis through to the operating theatre and recovery. Participants will trace the patient's pathway in their own setting, showing where it breaks and what would hold it together, while keynotes and two moderated panels consider what pathology, anaesthesia, workforce and rehabilitation each require before cure becomes possible.
The session raises global awareness of an often left unspoken gap: most people diagnosed with an operable cancer never reach a safe operation in time. It calls for cancer surgery to be understood as a question of health systems, financing and workforce rather than technique alone, and invites policymakers, health professionals, NGOs and advocates to help shape its principal output, a co-created Action Brief on Equitable Access to Cancer Surgery.
Agenda
Opening keynote - Cancer control is incomplete without surgery
Regional pathway vignettes - After diagnosis, what happens next?
Panel 1 - From diagnosis to surgery: where patients are lost-Moderator
Break and global online engagement
Expert framing - No safe anaesthesia, no safe cancer surgery
Panel 2 - Safe surgery, safe systems: workforce, infrastructure and recovery
Interactive global heatmap - What must change first?
Action Brief co-creation - The minimum package for equitable cancer surgery
Commitments and Partnership Board
Closing - From London to action
Event venue & nearby stays
St Mary's Hospital, 146 Praed Street, London, United Kingdom
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