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Pancreatic Cancer Professional Organizations

Organizations in the UK

The Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland has various functions related to pancreatic cancer. Firstly it runs an Annual Meeting for two days every November which is for clinicians and scientists with an interest in the pancreas. At the meeting they provide educational sessions and they present research papers from within the UK and also invite speakers from around the world to give keynote lectures and updates. Also on the website are details of other facilities provided by the Pancreatic Society. This includes a list of UK specialists, who are members of the Pancreatic Society. The Pancreatic Society also funds several bursaries for young researchers to attend international meetings and also provides a fellowship once a year for a pancreatic trainee specialist to visit a centre abroad.

There is a specialist nurse representative within the society. An increasing number of pancreatic and Upper GI specialist nurses attend the annual meeting each year and they are starting to organise their own meetings. Specialist nurses are encouraged to contact Elspeth Cowan, the nurse representative on the Pancreatic Society for Great Britain and Ireland, for further information about the specialist nurse group which aims to share information between nurses throughout the UK and to feed back progress and concerns to the committee members. Contact details are: Ms Elspeth Cowan, Specialist Nurse, Department of Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

The Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

National Cancer Research Network - Clinical Studies Group - Upper GI Cancer Group

British Society of Gastroenterology

Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology

Organizations in the USA

American Pancreatic Association

The Pancreas Club

Organizations in Europe

We get many enquiries about specialist centres and availability of trials and treatment in Continental Europe, especially as so many people have moved to France and Spain for instance on retirement. The professional organizatiosn may be able to provide some information.

The European Pancreatic Club aims to promote communication between clinicians and basic scientists in Europe interested in the pancreas and its disorders. It may also be able to provide information on centres and specialists throughout Europe. It provides a list of the Clubs (ie professional scientific societies) in many European countries

European Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association

France - The Club Francais du Pancreas or the Société Nationale Française de Gastroentérologie may be able to provide some information on centres in France.

Spain - Similarly Club Espanol de Enfermedades Biliopancreaticas may be able to provide information in Spain

Italy - Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Pancreas

Germany - Deutscher Pankreasclub e.V. may be able to provide some information and www.pancreas.de has some German patient information

Switzerland - Swiss self-help group for pancreatic disease

Trials -

ClinicalTrials.gov enter search information such as pancreatic cancer, France
trials run from Berlin Charite Hospital - CONKO