NPO Cure Sarcoma’s third ordinary general meeting is to be held as follows:

Time: 1:30-4pm on March 6, 2016 (over-dinner gathering 4:30-6:30 pm) Place: Tokyo Shigoto Center B1 Auditorium Agenda: Part 1- General Meeting (Activity plan, budget, staffing, etc.) Part 2- Seminar and Information Sharing Meeting 1. Seminar by Dr. Takahashi (Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases) on the frontline of adult soft tissue sarcoma medical treatments 2. Information sharing by adult soft tissue sarcoma on their medical treatments

If you are interested in attending our general meeting, seminar, and over-dinner gathering, please contact us at support10@curesarcoma.jp by February 25.

A commemorative symposium of Japan Sarcoma Association is to be held in Kyoto on December 3 and 4.  NPO Cure Sarcoma supports this symposium.

If you would like to participate in this seminar, please send an application by November 16 to jsa@smtrc.org (e-mail) or 06-6981-3000 (fax).  Participants need to be a member of Cure Sarcoma Center with an annual membership fee of 15,000 yen. (Two people can attend the seminar.)

For the details, please see below:

Title of symposium:
Rare Cancer Sarcoma – Milestones for Conquering Sarcoma

Place:
Kyoto Heian Hotel 2F

Date:
December 3 (Thursday) 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
 Cutting Edge Lecture
 Educational Lecture
 Luncheon Seminar
 Symposium 1
 Symposium 2
 Poster Session/Patients advocacy/Exhibition
 Gala Dinner/Banquet (7,000 yen)
December 4 (Friday) 7:40 a.m. to 12 noon
 Morning Lecture
 Symposium 3

2nd ordinary general meeting of NPO Cure Sarcoma is to be held as follows:

Time: 2-4pm May 16 (Saturday), 2015

Place: 
   NPO Cure Sarcoma tent at Relay for Life Japan 2015 Ibaraki Kenkyugakuen Ekimae Koen,  
   2-1 Gakuenminami, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Park in front of  Tsukuba Express Kenkyugakuen Station)

Subject:
   Part 1- General Meeting (2014 activity reports and 2015 activity plans)
   Part 2- Information Sharing Meeting among members and observers

Mail notices have been sent to NPO members.

We decided to hold this general meeting in conjunction with Relay for Life Japan 2015 Ibaraki event because NPO Cure Sarcoma will participate in this RFL as a team. 

The meeting will resume soon after the opening ceremony of RFL at 2 p.m.

We will welcome non-members as an observer.  Please feel free to stop by and share information with us.

For further information, please contact our Cure Sarcoma office at upport10@curesarcoma.jp

NPO Cure Sarcoma’s first ordinary general meeting is to be held as follows:

Time: 3-5pm March 21, 2014
Place: Tokyo Shigoto Center
Subject: Part 1- General Meeting; Part 2- Information Sharing Meeting

An over-dinner gathering is planned from 5:30 p.m. after the ordinary general meeting.

10th Sarcoma Seminar is to be held: NPO Cure Sarcoma is going to co-sponsor 10th Sarcoma Seminar with General Incorporated Association Cure Sarcoma Center as follows:

Time: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., February 26, 2015
Place: Luke Hall, Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Speakers:
Dr. Nomori: Cryosurgery on malignant lung tumors
Dr. Koike: RFA on liver tumors
Dr. Takahashi: Status report on leiomyosarcoma treatment
Dr. Ohno, Dr. Hatae, Dr. Yajima, Dr. Teraoka: Status reports on sarcoma surgery treatments
Dr. Narahara:
 Status report on treatment using Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) inhibitor Pazopanib (Votrient)
Dr. Koyama, Dr. Oyama:
 Status report on international clinical study of newly developed sarcoma remedy

An over-dinner gathering is planned from 6 p.m. after the seminar.