Main Theme

Talk to the Worldwide from Asia
sub-theme : Multidisciplinary Treatment for Asian Cancer Patients

August 25,26,27, 2010

Congress President
Shigetoyo Saji (Gifu University)
Vice Congress President
Shigenobu Nakamura (Osaka University)
Honorary Congress President
Tetsuo Taguchi (Osaka University)
Secretary General
Kazuhiro Yoshida (Gifu University)
http://www.acos2010.org

Congress Venue Gifu Grand Hotel
	Exhibition: Kyougen by Motoya IZUMI
Main theme presentation by Congress President
	Opening Ceremony 8-25 （8:15-10:00）

President Banquet 8-24 （18:20-21:00）

Welcome remarks by Congress President		Cormorant fishing
Welcome remarks by President	Short address by Honorary President
Izumi Family	Gifu Geisya Dance
	Gifu Geisya Dance

Summary of Participants

A full moon also welcome us

Closing Ceremony 8-27 (16:39-17:00)

	Flag moved from Japan to Korea
9th ACOS Staff （Dept. of Surgical Oncology, Gifu Univ.）

Awards (Young Investigator's and Kobayashi Foundation for cancer Research)

"Young Investigator's Award

The local organizing committee in Japan has received over 50 applications from many countries around the world.　The jury of selection committee has screened the all the abstract and reached the decision successfully. The winner of YIA will be supported with an award (grant) of their travel expenses and accommodation to bring their presentation in Gifu, Japan.
Price A: Travel expenses and accommodations expenses.
Price B: Travel expenses only
Price C: Accommodation only
Also, the YIA nominee are required to complete the registration to the 9^th ACOS. Presentation and the prizes will be awarded to the winner at the closing ceremony on the 27^th August 2010. YIA winners will be obliged to make an oral presentation, in principal during the conference.

Winner of YIA

Kobayashi Foundation Award
(in case of 9^th ACOS 2010, in Gifu, Japan)

1. Purpose of this Award: Public Interest Incorporated Foundations, KOBAYASHI FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH will give awards to outstanding researchers who make remarkable social contributions to cancer chemotherapy in Asian countries other than Japan.
2. How to apply: Abstract presenters of the 9th International Conference of the Asian Clinical Oncology Society (ACOS), who agree with the purpose of this award and wish to apply, can submit an application on the ACOS official website, http://www.acos2010.org/
3. Selection process: The selection committee composed of cancer chemotherapy experts will screen the presentation abstracts and select the award winner.
   
   Award winner and Prize: About 15 Asian researchers from all candidates will be selected and awarded (JPY 2million in total).
   Oral Presenters : 6 researchers (JPY 200,000 each)
   Poster Presenters : 8 researchers (JPY 100,000 each)
   
4. Result announcements: Selection results will be announced on the 9^th ACOS website in early August.
5. Award ceremony: The award will be presented at the closing ceremony of the 9^th ACOS.
6. Screening method: Each abstract will be given 5,4,3,2 or 1 point by each screener (1 low, 5 high )The individual candidate's abstract head must be on the selection paper
7. Final selection: The Kobayashi Foundation committee and local organizing committee of the 9^th ACOS will gather them and add up the screening stage points, and will make a final selection.

Member of the Selection Committee of
"Kobayashi Foundation Award"

Chairman	Shigetoyo Saji (9th ACOS Congress president)
Members :	AMM Shariful Alam (Bangladesh),	Yuan-Kai Shi (China)
	Tony S.K. Mok (HongKong),	Sanjeev Misra (India)
	Daldiyono Hardjodisastro (Indonesia)	Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh (Iran)
	Kyung Sam Cho (Korea),	Hwee Ming Cheng (Malaysia)
	Yogendra Singh (Nepal)	Zeba Aziz (Pakistan)
	Antonio H. Villalon (Philippines)	Alex Y. Chang (Singapore)
	Jackie Whang-Peng (Taiwan)	Kannika Phornphutkul (Thailand)
	Thinh Dang Huy Quoc (Viet Nam)

Selection Policy

1. Kobayashi Foundation Award is for researchers in Asian countries except Japan.
2. All abstracts applied for the award are divided into oral and poster abstracts, and the selection committee gives scores to them from 1 (the lowest) to 5 (the highest).
3. The researchers in many Asian countries are given the award by the purpose of our foundation, which is to contribute to the development of cancer treatment in Asian countries. Therefore, only one for every ten abstract is selected and the maximum number of winners is three per country.
4. The abstracts about cancer chemotherapy have a priority if there is not much difference in total scores.
5. The chairman of the selection committee doesn't evaluate nor give scores to the abstracts but makes a final decision on the winners.
6. If there are abstracts with same points, the decision is left to the chairman of the selection committee

Winner of Kobayashi Foundation Award

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9^th ACOS 2010 Registration : 20 Countries

Japan	475	Hong Kong	5
Korea	85	Philippines	5
Taiwan	34	United Kingdom	2
China	27	Pakistan	2
India	12	Thailand	1
Indonesia	12	France	1
Viet Nam	11	Iran	1
USA	12	Germany	1
Singapore	8	Australia	1
Nepal	8	Malaysia	1
Total 704 subjects from 20 countries

Number of Session		Speaker	Chairmen	Total
President lecture	2	2	2	4
Key Note Lecture	4	4	4	8
Educational Lecture	8	12	8	20
On time symposium	2	14	4	18
Satellite symposium	2	10	5	15
Symposium	11	54	27	81
Workshop	13	60	33	93
VIDEO　Symposium	3	15	8	23
Mini-symposium	16	88	32	120
Min-video symposium	4	20	8	28
Oral	22	127	44	181
Poster	25	248	50	298
Luncheon Seminar	14	21	15	36
Total	126	575	240	925

Final submitted abstracts for oral and poster : 483 subjects

Summary of Participants

Opening Ceremony: 350, Closing ceremony: 120, General Assembly: 600,
Council member: 41, Local Organizing Committee and Staff, etc : 250,
Total: 1500 (Foreign Delegate: 320) participants