Research
Membership and International Cooperation
The Institute of Oncology Ljubljana is a member of two international associations that are concerned with joining together those involved in the prevention and treatment of cancer:
OECI is an organization joining together the European cancer institutes with the aim of encouraging their cooperation and strengthening the role of comprehensive cancer centers in Europe. The main purpose of the Organization is prevention and treatment of cancer as well as offering support and help to cancer patients.
High-level research, development and initiation of new treatment methods can be pursued only through cooperation with internationally recognized cancer centers abroad. Such cooperation has been usually based on partnership or on cooperation only in specific areas.
Over many active years in research, the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana established cooperation with the following foreign institutions:
- British Columbia Cancer Center, Vancouver
- Centro Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano
- Cork Cancer Research Centre, Cork
- Erasmus University, Rotterdam
- Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Oxford
- Harlev Hospital, Harlev
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse
- Institut Gustave Roussy / CNRS, Villejuif
- Institut Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb
- Klinika za tumore Zagreb, Zagreb
- Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milano
- Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano
- Lund University, Lund University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Lund
- M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
- Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- University of Münster, Münster
- University of Ulm, Ulm
and research groups:
- EORTC Breast Cancer Group
- EORTC Gynecological Cancer Group
- EORTC Lung Cancer Group
- EORTC Lymphoma Group
- EORTC Melanoma Group
- EORTC Head and Neck Cancer Group
- EORTC NOCI
- EORTC - European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
- European Network of Cancer Registries - ENCR
- International Agency for Research on Cancer - IARC
- International Breast Cancer Study Group - IBCSG
- Central European Cooperative Oncoloy Group - CECOG
- Central and East European Oncoloy Group - CEEOG
- Breast Cancer International Research Group - BCIRG